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Livestock Breeds

Beef Cattle

Dairy Cow

Dual Purpose

There are over 70 beef cattle breeds but the most common are:

Angus Hereford/Polled Hereford

Charolais Limousin

ChianinaSimmental

BrahmanBeefmaster

Brangus Santa Gertrudis

Simbrah

Dairy Cattle

Holstein cows can produce 13,000 lb of milk annually . Their milk contains 3.6 butter fat.

Jersey cows are the smallest dairy breed and produce the least amount of milk (10,000 lb annually) but have the highest butterfat, 4.9%

The Guernsey produces about 10,000 lb of milk annually and has a 4.6% butterfat

The Brown Swiss produces 13,000 lb of milk annually with 4.0% butterfat.

The Ayrshire produces around 11,500 lb of milk annually and has 3.9% butter fat

Guernseys and Ayrshires are more common in the north and Jersey and Brown Swiss are more common the south.

Sheep Breeds

Sheep are classified by the type of wool they produce.

There are fine wool, medium wool, long wool , crossbred wool, carpet wool and fur.

The Rambouillet is the principal fine wool breed in the USA. They are the largest of the fine wool breeds.

Medium wool breeds.

Dorset Hampshire Southdown

Suffolk (the tallest of the medium wool breeds)

Crossbred Sheep are developed by crossing long wool breeds with fine wool breeds.

Goat Breeds

There are three types of goat breeds.

FiberDairy (milk)Meat

The Angora is a fiber breed and is covered with long curly hair, called mohair. Over 90% of the Angora goats in the USA are in Texas.

Dairy Goats

Most of the dairy goats in the USA are in California. This is the Nubian

The Alpine

The Saanen: This is the largest of the Swiss breeds

The Toggenburg has two white strips on the face and has white below the knees.

Meat Goats

The South African Boer: This is the largest of the goat breeds in the USA

Swine Breeds

Duroc

Yorkshire

Hampshire Landrace

Polish China

Chester White

Swine are cross bred for body type, feed efficiency, and growth rates, as well as well as for maternal instincts.

Equine Breeds

There are more than 45 breeds of horses and they are classified as light horses, ponies and draft horses.

Light horses

Quarterhorse Thoroughbred

Arabian

Standardbred

Tennessee WalkerAppaloosa

American Paint

Pony Breeds

HackneyShetland

Welsh

Draft Breeds

Belgium

Percheron

Clydesdale!!