It is officially 1 year since the blog started!!!
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Anyways as this this a momentous occasion I decided what other way to celebrate one year of blogging than to rank cattle breeds according to the alphabet.
No, I'm not kidding. (Or am I?)
Fun fact, there are over 1000 breeds of cattle that are recognized in the world today. So, I'm going to pick my favorite one from each letter the alphabet from A-Z. And we're gonna look at some cuties today! Happy 1 year anniversary to us indeed.
1. Aberdeen Angus (from Scotland)
Fact about this cutie here: While the Aberdeen Angus in the UK is not at risk, the original Native Aberdeen Angus- is listed by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust as 'at risk'. 2. Bachaur cattle (from India)
Fact about this cutie here: This cattle was widely popular in Bihar during the days of the (TW: COLONIZATION REFERNCE) English East India Company.3. Cachena (Portugal and Spain)
Fact about these cuties: Cachena cattle are one of the smallest cattle breeds of the world, the height being equal to or less than 110cm, weight being round 550kg (for bulls) and 390kg (for cows). 4. Dajal cattle (from Pakistan)
Fun fact about these cuties: Unfortunately couldn't find much info or a cute enough pic of them but at one point in the 1940s, there were over a million of them in the western Punjab province ;)
5. Eastern Finncattle (from Finland)
Fun fact about these cuties: They were recognized as a separate breed in the 1890's not to be confused with the Western Finncattle or the North Finnish cattle. Rookie mistake, really. 6. Fleckvieh (from Austria)
Fun fact about these cuties: The Fleckvieh originated in the Austrian empire and the Kingdom of Bavaria as a result of cross-breeding of local stock with Simmental cattle imported from Switzerland from about 1830.
7. Gasconne (from France)
8. Hanwoo (from South Korea)
Fun fact about these cuties: The cattle are fed rice straw as their principal source of roughage.
9. Icelandic cattle (take a guess where from)
Fun fact about these cuties: They are known for being a extremely colorful breed with wide variety of colors and markings AND no cattle are permitted to be imported into Iceland, so they are protected by strict disease-prevention measures.
10. Japanese Polled (from ???)
Sad fact about these cuties: They are a critically-endangered breed of small Japanese beef cattle. It is one of six native Japanese cattle breeds, and one of four Japanese breeds known as wagyu (yes, the very same). It is not in risk on immediate extinction but emergency measures are being taken for its protection.
11. Kalmyk cattle (from Russia)
Not a whole lot of solid info on them and I think I'll let it stay that way.
12. Lakenvelder cattle (from Netherlands)
Fun fact about these cuties: There is a debate about where this breed is derived from and whether it is of Swiss or Austrian descent. However, it seems that some cattle of this breed during the reign of William the Orange found their way to Scotland, where they inter-bred with Galloway stock, giving rise to the Belted Galloway.
13. Maremmana (from Italy)
Fun fact about these cuties: Between 1737 and 1859, when Tuscany was ruled by the Habsburg Grand-Dukes, they sent Maremmano bulls to their estate to improve their Hungarian Grey Cattle.
14. N'Dama (from West Africa, Guinea)
Fun fact about these cuties: They show superior resistance to ticks and the diseases they carry and to Haemonchus contortus stomach worms.
15. Original Simmental cattle (from Switzerland)
Fun fact about this cutie: It is one of the oldest and widely distributed of all breeds of cattle in the world and has contributed to the creation of several other famous European breeds, including Montbéliarde,
the Pezzata Rossa d'Oropa, and the Fleckvieh (sound familiar?)
16. Pineywoods cattle (from America)
Sad fact about these cuties: The Pineywoods is an endangered American breed of cattle. they were brought to the Americas by the (TW: older colonizers) conquistadores in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
17. Unfortunately there is not much information regarding the history or characteristics of the following breeds so you can just adore them instead.
Under the letter Q, we have these two Q-ties.
This is the Queensland Miniature Boran.
And this is the Qinchaun Cattle.
18. Romanian Bălțata (from Romania)
Fun fact about these cuties: It is also known as the Romanian Spotted Cattle and is the most common breed of cattle in Romania. It is resistant to poor nutrition and is descended from two breeds, the Romanian Steppe Grey and the Simmental (she's the original).
19. Speckle Park (from Canada)
Sad fact about these cuties: As of 2021, the conservation status of
this breed has been reported as 'at risk/endangered'. The Speckle Park was
named from a single bull with the color pointed markings of the British
White Park. The Speckle Park was officially recognized as an 'evolving
breed' in 1995, and received full 'distinct breed' recognition from the
Canadian government in 2006.
20. Telemarkfe (from Norway)
Fun/sad fact about these cuties: The Telemarkfe or Telemark is a traditional Norweigan
breed of dairy cattle. It originated in and is named for, the country of
Telemark in central southern Norway. It is an endangered breed, with a total
population of fewer than 600 head.
21. Ukrainian Grey (from ...)
Fun/sad fact about these cuties: The Ukrainian Grey has been shown by studies of microsatellite data to be a very ancient one. It's conservation status is currently 'at risk'.
22. Vaynol (from Wales)
Sad fact about these cuties: The Vaynol is one the (TW: British reference) United Kingdom's rarest breeds of cattle with less than 150 breeding animals registered. The breed is currently listed as 'critical'. There are currently three officially registered herds of Vaynol cattle existing in the UK. There are also very similiar in appearance to the White Park.
23. White Park Cattle (from if you don't have horrible memory you know where)
Fun/sad fact about these cuties: The White Park is a modern British breed of cattle. It was established in 1973 to include several populations of white cattle and their origins go back to the Middle Ages. It is an endangered breed and is currently 'at risk'.
24. There isn't much information available and barely any pictures under this letter so one picture will have to suffice.
Xinjiang cattle (from China)
25. Yakutian Cattle (from Russia, Siberia)
Fun fact about these cuties: The Yakutian cattle are landrace bred north of the Arctic Circle in the Republic of Sakha. They are noted for their extreme hardiness and tolerance towards freezing temperatures.
26. Żubroń (from Poland)
Fun fact about these cuties: They are a hybrid of domestic cattle and wisent. The wisent is the European bison, hence, the name Żubroń is analogous to the American beefalo. The name was officially chosen from hundreds of proposals sent to the Polish weekly magazine Przekrój during a contest organized in 1969.
The end.
This is probably my longest post ;)
Thank you for reading this (if you had the patience to read all of it) and just for reading the blog in general!
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