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Traditional Simmental cow on alpine pasture (Engstligenalp) Purebred "Black Simmental" bull in North America The Simmental or Swiss Fleckvieh is a Swiss breed of dual-purpose cattle . It is named after the Simmental – the valley of the Simme river – in the Bernese Oberland , in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
French Simmental is a French cattle breed. History. The breed originates from Simmental cattle from Switzerland. They were imported to France at the beginning of the ...
Over 1000 breeds of cattle are recognized worldwide, some of which adapted to the local climate, others which were bred by humans for specialized uses. [1]Cattle breeds fall into two main types, which are regarded as either two closely related species, or two subspecies of one species.
French Simmental: France: Gangatiri: India: 7 1.8 German Black Pied Dairy: Germany: Girolando: Brazil: 11.4 3 Guernsey: Guernsey [1] 19 5 4.51 [2] 3.37 [2] One of the Channel Islands cattle. Harzer Rotvieh: Germany: Hays Converter: Canada: Hérens: Switzerland: Holstein-Friesian: Netherlands [1] 53 14 3.65 [2] 3.06 [2] Known for producing the ...
The Ayrshire and Simmental breeds were ... and Relay of Information for Individual Identification of ... primary characteristics of Wagyu beef is the fine ...
In the mid-twentieth century, intensive selective breeding for dairy characteristics and excessive inbreeding led to a loss of genetic diversity, and also to an increase in transmissible genetic defects such as the recessive factors for bovine progressive degenerative myeloencephalopathy ("weaver disease") and spinal muscular atrophy, both of ...
Herd of cows at Saint Saûveux. The Jersey is a British breed of small dairy cattle from Jersey, in the British Channel Islands.It is one of three Channel Island cattle breeds, the others being the Alderney – now extinct – and the Guernsey.
In Melchsee-Frutt, in the canton of Obwalden. The Braunvieh (German pronunciation: [ˈbʁaʊnˌfiː], "brown cattle") or Swiss Brown is a breed or group of breeds of domestic cattle originating in Switzerland and distributed throughout the Alpine region.