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The Holstein Friesian is an international breed or group of breeds of dairy cattle. ... A number of superior bulls were slaughtered or exported. The studs were simply ...
The Holstein Association USA is the world's largest dairy breed association. With over 22 million registered Holstein Friesian cattle, the association was established in 1885 as the Holstein–Friesian Association of America, a merger of several Friesian breeder associations. It was given its current name in 1994.
Holstein-Friesian: Netherlands [1] 53 14 3.65 [2] 3.06 [2] Known for producing the most milk of any cattle. Illawarra Shorthorn: Australia [1] 7.5 2 Irish Moiled: Ireland: 7.5 2 Rare breed and can be dual purpose, meat and milk. Jamaica Hope: Jamaica: Jersey: Jersey [1] 19 5 4.60 [2] 3.59 [2] Has a very high content of butterfat in the milk ...
The Swiss Holstein is the Swiss variant of the international Holstein-Friesian breed of dairy cattle.It results from systematic cross-breeding, through artificial insemination between 1966 and 1973, of the traditional dual-purpose black-pied Fribourgeoise from the Canton of Fribourg in western Switzerland with Canadian Holstein stock.
By 1916 the Dutch Belted, as it was now known, had spread to some twenty-five states and had reached about 1500 in number. [4]: 172 It became well-known as a useful dairy breed, but numbers never rose very high. With the rapid spread of the Holstein in the mid-twentieth century, numbers fell and in the 1970s the breed association became dormant.
Kian (11 June 1997 [1] – 2013) [2] was a red-and-white breeding bull.He was the first red Holstein bull from the Netherlands whose semen was sold worldwide; more than a million units of his frozen semen were sold.
The original Swedish Friesian type has become very rare, [4] and should perhaps be considered extinct. [7] [6] In 2008 two breeds were reported to DAD-IS: the Svensk Holstein or Swedish Holstein, with just over 400 000 registered cows; and the Svensk Låglandsboskap or Swedish Friesian, with 100 registered cows and a conservation status of ...
Since 1958 in West Germany the breed was crossed with Holstein Friesian cattle. Since the 1960s these crossed animals have been dominant, and so the German black-and-white cattle breed was born. [1] In East Germany the breed was crossed with Jersey cattle and Holstein Friesian cattle to create the German Black Pied Dairy cattle breed. [2]