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The decision to introduce Maine-Anjou blood into the Beef Shorthorn breed was very controversial at the time, but most breeders now acknowledge it was a necessary step which saved the breed from irrelevance. The herd book was closed to Maine-Anjou blood lines in 2001, except by introduction through the Grading Register.
[5]: 229 [11]: 48 Cattle of this type soon acquired a good reputation; from 1822 they were registered in Coates's Shorthorn herd-book. [5]: 229 In 1895 a breed society, the Lincoln Red Shorthorn Association, was formed, and within a year had published its own herd-book. By the 1920s the Lincoln Red Shorthorn was the second-most numerous ...
The Whitebred Shorthorn was developed to provide white Shorthorn bulls for crossing with black Galloway cows. [2] The offspring of this cross form a popular type, the Blue Grey, which has useful characteristics of both parents, and an intermediate blue roan colour. As this colour does not consistently breed true, Blue Greys are normally ...
They have continued to compile and publish Coates's Herd Book ever since. The American Shorthorn Herd Book was the first to be published in the United States for any breed and was started in 1846, with the formation of the American Shorthorn Association following 26 years later in 1872.
Red Poll Herd Book: Red Poll Cattle Society of Great Britain and Ireland [1] Shorthorn: Coates's Herd Book: Shorthorn Society of Great Britain and Ireland [1] South Devon: Herd Book of South Devon Cattle: South Devon Herd Book Society [1] Simmental: Irish Simmental Cattle Society: Irish Simmental Cattle Society Ltd [1] Sussex: Sussex Herd Book ...
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A breed society, the Devon Cattle Breeders' Society, was formed in 1884, and took over management of the herd-book. [5]: 168 By the early twentieth century the Devon was widespread. A census in 1908 found a population of close to 500,000, outnumbered only by the Shorthorn – of which there were about ten times that number. [5]: 168 [6]: 25
From about 1880 bulls of the British Hereford and Beef Shorthorn breeds were used to improve them; [3]: 290 substantial separate Shorthorn and Hereford herds were kept to supply the bulls. [ 5 ] : 115 In 1910 a part-zebuine bull, descended from an Ongole bull imported in 1906 directly from India, was acquired and was cross-bred with cows of the ...