breeds

• Breed


  Group of animals with common origin and characteristics that distinguish them from other groups of animals within the same species
• Variety


  Subdivision of breed
• Strain


  Family of variety; usually named after the breeder or the breeding company
• Chicken breeds descended from

  • Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus)
  • Gray Jungle Fowl (Gallus sonnerati)
  • Ceylonese Jungle Fowl (Gallus lafayetti)
• Ancona


  • Distinct plumage with black color and white tipped feather
  • Egg color: white
  • Egg size: medium – large
• Australorp

  • Dual purpose: good egg layers as well as meat birds
• Brahma


  • Heavy birds, primarily for meat production
• Cochin


  • Dual Purpose fowl
  • Primary bred for exhibition
• Cornish


  • Broiler
  • Developed as the ultimate bird; excellent carcass
• Leghorn


  • Egg layer: 200 eggs per year
• Minorca


  • Long, angular birds
  • Egg producers
• Rhode Island Red


  • Relatively hardy, probably the Best egg Layer of the dual purpose breeds
• Sussex


  • Dual Purpose
  • All around farm fowl
• Wyandotte


  • Dual purpose
• Swine breeds descended from

  • Sus scrofa
  • Sus vittatus
• Berkshire


  • Black with white color on their legs, faces, and the tips or their tails
  • Erect ears
  • Fast growth and efficient growth
• Duroc


  • Light gold - very dark red approaching mahogany, cherry red is the most common
  • Medium drooping ears
  • Known for its carcass quality and is used as a terminal sire for slaughter pigs
• Hampshire


  • Black with a white belt
  • Medium and erect ears
  • Admired for their prolificacy (marami manganak), hardy vigor, and outstanding carcass qualities
• Landrace


  • White
  • Larger dropping ears
  • Longest breed of swine
  • Known for prolificacy and good mothering ability
• Large White


  • White
  • Medium and Erect ears
  • Rugged, Hardly Breed
  • Fave Market Animal for high quality meat products
• Pietrain


  • White with black Spots
  • Erect ears
  • Also known as "muscle pig"
  • Carries an extremely high proportion of lean to fat
• Tamworth


  • Golden- dark red
  • Erect ears
  • Known for its hardiness to adverse climates
• Angus


  • Black with Moderate white color underline
  • Predominantly polled
  • Beef Production
• Brahman


  • Grayish to white in color
  • Horned
  • Can subsist on poor quality forage, for beef production
• Hereford


  • Red color with White Face
  • white color in the flank, underline, breast, crest, tail switch and below knees
  • Polled
  • Beef production
• Holstein Friesian


  • Black and white ; vary from a few spots to almost black
  • Polled
  • Milk Production
  • Well-known for the highest lifetime milk production in the world (>30,000 kg milk / lifetime)
• Jersey


  • Slightly Red, deep brown or mixed
  • Polled
  • Milk Production , adaptable to wide range of climatic and geographical conditions
  • ⬆Milk fats
• Sahiwal


  • Reddish Brown Reddish brown without markings
  • Loose skin with large heavy dewlap
  • Milk and Meat Production
  • Trophical
• Anglo - Nubian


  • Dual purpose, for meat and milk
  • Roman nose, pendulous ears
  • Black, Red, Tan
• Boer


  • Meat production
  • Droopy Ears
  • Coat of Brown White
• French Alpine


  • Milk Production
  • Erect and Medium sized ears
  • Horned
  • Color ranges from pure white through shades of fawn, gray, brown, black, red, bluff, piebald
• Kiko


  • Meat Production
  • Erect Ears
  • White - choco brown
• La Mancha


  • Milk production
  • Gopher ear or elf ear
  • Polled
  • Wide Variety of colors
• Philippine Native


  • Two varieties of goat raised for Meat production
  • Polled
  • Coarse Haired
  • Tan / Light brown
  • The other is with fine hair, color is black or brown and may have a white belt and is usually horned
  • Erect ears
• Toggenburg


  • Oldest known dairy goat breed
  • Erect ears
  • Solid color varying from light fawn to dark chocolate
• Saanen


  • Most popular dairy goat breed
  • Queen of dairy goats due to its high milk yield
  • Solid white
• Barbados Blackbelly


  • Meat production
  • Polled and Erect ears
  • Shades of brown , tan or yellow, all are highlighted with contrasting black underparts extending down the inside of the legs
• Cheviot


  • Wool production
  • Polled, Erect ears
  • Creamy White color
• Corriedale


  • Dual: Wool and Meat Production
  • Polled
  • Creamy Brown - gray
• Dorper


  • Meat Production
  • Polled
  • White in color with characteristic black head (dorper) as well as white head (white dorper)