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An American breeder, Richard Gradwohl, has developed eighteen different strains of miniature cattle. [3] Miniature Galloway, Hereford and Holstein have been bred. [2]: 245 [3] In the United States, small zebuine cattle deriving from stock imported from Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Sweden may be registered as "Miniature Zebu"; [2]: 245 in Australia, similar cattle may be known as "Nadudana".
The cow appears unusually large, in a brownish-yellow colour. Her eyes and nose seems also very big. The title of the painting is an ironic reference to that particular feature. [4] This painting is the only of the Cows series that appeared in Dubuffet's first retrospective held at the Fondation Maeght, in 1985. [5]
Vechur cattle. Vechur is a breed of zebu (Bos indicus) cattle, named after the village of Vechoor in Kerala, India.With an average length of 124 cm and height of 87 cm, it is the smallest cattle breed in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records, [1] and is valued for the larger amount of milk it produces relative to the amount of food it requires.
A chondrodysplastic-dwarf cow. The Dexter is an Irish breed of small cattle. [6] It originated in the eighteenth century in County Kerry, in south-western Ireland, and appears to be named after a man named Dexter, who was factor of the estates of Lord Hawarden on Valentia Island.
The Australian Lowline is a modern Australian breed of small, polled beef cattle. It was the result of a selective breeding experiment using black Aberdeen Angus cattle at the Agricultural Research Centre of the Department of Agriculture of New South Wales at Trangie. [5]: 3 It is among the smallest breeds of cattle, but is not a dwarf breed.
It is among the smallest of zebuine cattle breeds: bulls stand some 107 cm and weigh about 240 kg, cows average 97 cm in height and 170 kg in weight. [2] The coat may be white, grey, brown, red, or rarely black. [3]: 94 The horns are small and of crescent shape. [2]
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type is a 2001 Caldecott Honor book. [1] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association included it on a list of "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children", [2] and it was listed as one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal.
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. The milk is high in butterfat and has a characteristic yellowish tinge.