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Cattle - muzzle print. A muzzle print or nose print can be used as a distinguishing pattern for animal identification. [1] The muzzle print is a primary animal biometric characteristic for the recognition of individual cattle. It is a unique animal identifier that is similar to human fingerprints. [2]
The horns are unusually large, with a wide spread [2]: 110 and the largest circumference found in any cattle breed. Guinness World Records lists a bull named CT Woodie with a horn circumference of 103.5 cm (40.7 in) and a steer named Lurch, with horns measuring 95.25 cm (37.50 in), as record-holders.
The Forum Boarium (Classical Latin: [ˈfɔrʊm‿boˈaːriʊ̃], Italian: Foro Boario) was the cattle market or forum venalium of ancient Rome.It was located on a level piece of land near the Tiber between the Capitoline, the Palatine and Aventine hills.
Cattle rustlers using running irons were ingenious in changing brands. [3] The most famous brand change involved the making of the X I T brand into the Star-Cross brand, a star with a cross inside. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Brands became so numerous that it became necessary to record them in books that the ranchers could carry in their pockets.
The Aubrac or Laguiole is a French breed of beef cattle. It originates on the Plateau de l'Aubrac in the Massif Central in central southern France, from which it also takes its name. It has a wheat-coloured coat and dark hooves, switch, muzzle and eyes.
In many animals, the structure is called a muzzle, [1] rostrum, beak or proboscis. The wet furless surface around the nostrils of the nose of many mammals is called the rhinarium (colloquially this is the "cold wet snout" of some mammals).
This primitive cattle breed is given special protection in the official Spanish cattle breeds catalogue, because numbers have declined rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s. The quality of their meat is valued, but traditionally Pajuna were used as draft animals.
She was asked several times to sit down or leave, before Congressman Billy Long (R-MO), a certified auctioneer and member of the National Auctioneers Association, [4] [5] launched into an auction chant pretending to sell Loomer's cellphone which she was holding up to make a video. Loomer was escorted out and Long received laughter and applause ...