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Livestock Breeds

Livestock Breeds. Beef Cattle Dairy Cow Dual Purpose

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Livestock Breeds

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Beef Cattle

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Dairy Cow

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Dual Purpose

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

Angus Hereford/Polled Hereford

Charolais Limousin

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ChianinaSimmental

BrahmanBeefmaster

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Brangus Santa Gertrudis

Simbrah

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Dairy Cattle

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

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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%

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

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

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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.

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Sheep Breeds

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Sheep are classified by the type of wool they produce.

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

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

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Medium wool breeds.

Dorset Hampshire Southdown

Suffolk (the tallest of the medium wool breeds)

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

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Goat Breeds

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There are three types of goat breeds.

FiberDairy (milk)Meat

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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.

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Dairy Goats

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

The Alpine

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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.

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Meat Goats

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

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Swine Breeds

Duroc

Yorkshire

Hampshire Landrace

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Polish China

Chester White

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

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Equine Breeds

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

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Light horses

Quarterhorse Thoroughbred

Arabian

Standardbred

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Tennessee WalkerAppaloosa

American Paint

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Pony Breeds

HackneyShetland

Welsh

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Draft Breeds

Belgium

Percheron

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Clydesdale!!