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The Ayrshire was exported to the United States from 1822, primarily to Connecticut and other parts of New England. [4] The environment was similar to their native land of Scotland. The American Ayrshire Breed Association was founded in 1875. The Approved Ayrshire Milk programme, which licensed farms that owned Ayrshire cattle, began in the 1930s.
Cattle breeds fall into two main types, which are regarded as either two closely related species, or two subspecies of one species. Bos indicus (or Bos taurus indicus ) cattle, commonly called zebu, are adapted to hot climates and originated in the tropical parts of the world such as India, Sub-saharan Africa, China, and Southeast Asia.
The Finnish Ayrshire is a Finnish breed of dairy cattle. It derives from Scottish Ayrshire stock imported to Finland between about 1847 and 1923. [ 1 ] : 118 It is the most numerous dairy breed of the country, constituting approximately 61% of the dairy herd.
Very small in size. Used in domestic farms. Estonian Red: Estonia: 11.2 2.9 Fleckvieh Austria: 25.4 6.7 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 ...
Ayrshire is one of the most agriculturally fertile regions of Scotland. Potatoes are grown in fields near the coast, using seaweed-based fertiliser, and in addition the region produces pork products, other root vegetables, and cattle (see below); [1] and summer berries such as strawberries are grown abundantly.
This is a list of cattle herd books (breed registries) ... Ayrshire: Ayrshire Herd Book: Ayrshire Cattle Herd Book Society of Great Britain and Ireland [1] Belted ...
The Swedish Red-and-White, Swedish: Svensk Röd och Vit Boskap, frequently abbreviated to SRB, is a Swedish breed of dairy cattle. It was created in the 1920s by crossing the Swedish Red Pied and Swedish Ayrshire breeds.
365 hectares (900 acres) of arable land are farmed and relative to its size it is the most fertile and productive island in Scotland. [60] Ayrshire cattle are kept on the island. In October 2006 it was announced [53] that the population had reached 150 – a rise of more than 50 per cent since the 2002 buy-out.