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[5]: 229 [11]: 48 Cattle of this type soon acquired a good reputation; from 1822 they were registered in Coates's Shorthorn herd-book. [5]: 229 In 1895 a breed society, the Lincoln Red Shorthorn Association, was formed, and within a year had published its own herd-book. By the 1920s the Lincoln Red Shorthorn was the second-most numerous ...
The decision to introduce Maine-Anjou blood into the Beef Shorthorn breed was very controversial at the time, but most breeders now acknowledge it was a necessary step which saved the breed from irrelevance. The herd book was closed to Maine-Anjou blood lines in 2001, except by introduction through the Grading Register.
From about 1880 bulls of the British Hereford and Beef Shorthorn breeds were used to improve them; [3]: 290 substantial separate Shorthorn and Hereford herds were kept to supply the bulls. [ 5 ] : 115 In 1910 a part-zebuine bull, descended from an Ongole bull imported in 1906 directly from India, was acquired and was cross-bred with cows of the ...
The Droughtmaster is an Australian breed of beef cattle. It was developed from about 1915 in North Queensland by crossing zebuine cattle with cattle of British origin, principally the Beef Shorthorn. It was the first Australian taurindicine hybrid breed; [3]: 171 it is approximately 50% Bos indicus and 50% Bos taurus. [4]
The Whitebred Shorthorn was developed to provide white Shorthorn bulls for crossing with black Galloway cows. [2] The offspring of this cross form a popular type, the Blue Grey, which has useful characteristics of both parents, and an intermediate blue roan colour. As this colour does not consistently breed true, Blue Greys are normally ...
The Hereford is a British breed of beef cattle originally from Herefordshire in the West Midlands of England. [3] It was the result of selective breeding from the mid-eighteenth century by a few families in Herefordshire, beginning some decades before the noted work of Robert Bakewell.
The Blue Albion originated in the county of Derbyshire in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century; it derived from cross-breeding of Southern Wales Black and white Dairy Shorthorn stock. [ 5 ] : 133 [ 6 ] : 134 A herd-book was started in 1916, in which only blue roan animals could be recorded.
[5]: 232 After his death in 1795 it began to decline, and within a short time was supplanted by the Shorthorn as the principal breed in the country. Both the numbers and the quality of the breed decreased throughout the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth. A breed society was formed in 1878, and a herd-book published in that year.