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The Red Angus is an international breed of beef cattle characterised by a reddish-brown coat colour. It derives from the Scottish Aberdeen Angus population and is identical to it in all but coat colour. Red Angus are registered separately from black Angus cattle in Australia, Canada, and the United States. [4]
[1]: 48 [2]: xxii, 127 A similar colour pattern is seen in the domestic yak [1]: 48 and in some zebuine cattle. [ 3 ] An extreme pale form of the colour-sided pattern is the colour-pointed or 'white park' pattern, seen for example in the White Park , the British White and in some Irish Moiled , where the darker colour is restricted to the ears ...
In addition to evaluations of growth and conformation in the live animals, carcases, including fat composition, are evaluated. The best bulls identified in progeny testing are formally given the award Young Beef Cattle (in French Viande Jeunes Bovins, abbreviated to JB). Female progeny go to a test station in Moussour in Corrèze, where they ...
On average, cattle will consume 1.4 to 4% of their body weight daily. [8] There is a range of types of feed available for these animals. The standard text in the United States, Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle, has been through eight editions over at least seventy years. [9]
Beefmaster is a breed of beef cattle that was developed in the early 1930s by Tom Lasater (the breed founder), [1] from a systematic crossing of Hereford cows and Shorthorn cows with Brahman bulls. The exact mixture of the foundation cattle is unknown, but is thought to be about 25% Hereford, 25% Milking Shorthorn and 50% Brahman.
The Murray Grey is an Australian breed of polled beef cattle. It originated between 1905 and 1917 in the upper Murray River valley, on the border between New South Wales and Victoria . It is similar in appearance to the Aberdeen Angus , from which it largely derives, but is grey, silver or dun in colour.
A Tasmanian Grey cow. The Tasmanian Grey is a polled beef breed of silver grey, grey or dun cattle developed in Tasmania, Australia, in the 1930s.. Bill Reed of Parknook crossed an Angus bull with a white Shorthorn milking cow that produced grey offspring.
The American Angus is a beef breed, and is reared only for that purpose. [ 3 ] : 730 Comparative trials have not identified any commercially-significant difference between it and the Red Angus. [ 2 ] : 278 Since 1978, beef meeting certain criteria may be marketed as "Certified Angus Beef", a quality mark of the American Angus Association ...