Beef cattle Totally Explained

Everything about Beef Cattle totally explained

Beef cattle are bovine cattle (cows, see Bos taurus) raised for meat production (as distinguished from dairy cattle). The meat of cattle is known as beef. While the principal use of beef cattle is meat production, other uses include leather, and products used in shampoo and cosmetics. The plural beeves, when referring to such meat-animals (of either sex), is well known in the American cattle industry, but is often restricted to steers.

Beef Cattle breeds

Breed	Location of Origin	Description
Hereford	Herefordshire, England
Angus	Scotland	pure black, possibly with white at udder
Red Angus	Europe
Brahman	India
Galloway	Galloway region of Scotland
Belted Galloway		A cross between the native black polled galloway cattle and imported dutch belted cattle
Texas Longhorn	Texas	Their horns can extend to 120 inches tip to tip for steers and exceptional cows and bulls in the 70 to 80 inch tip to tip range.
Simmental	Western Switzerland
Dexter	Southern Ireland
Santa Gertrudis	Southern Texas
Charolais	Charolais France
Limousin	Limousin and Marche regions of France.
Maine-Anjou cattle	Anjou region in West France.
Boran cattle	Eastern Africa
Afrikaner cattle	South Africa
Beef Shorthorn
Red Poll	East Anglia in England	Red hornless, dual purpose
Brangus		A cross between an Angus and a Brahman
Beefmaster	Southern Texas
Nelore	India	Exported to Brazil, where it has become a dominant breed
Chianina	Italy
Murray Grey	Eastern Australia
Square Meater	New South Wales, Australia
Sussex	South-east England	Red with white tail switch
Wagyu	Japan
Belgian Blue	Belgium

Breeds known as dual purpose breeds are also used for beef production. These breeds have been selected for two purposes at once, such as for both beef and dairy production. Dual Purpose breeds include the Brown Swiss and many of the Zebu breeds of India such as Tharparkar and Ongole.

Further Information

Get more info on 'Beef Cattle'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://beef_cattle.totallyexplained.com">Beef cattle Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.