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EveryCow

About EveryCow

EveryCow is a free guide to the cattle of the world: every breed, from every country, with India as one strong thread among many. It has pages on 129 breeds so far, 67 products of the cow and 312 more breeds on the list to be written. A breed is understood best next to its lineage, its home valley or plain, the people who keep it and the days it is honoured, so that is how the guide is built.

The aim is simple: anyone should be able to look up any breed and come away knowing what it looks like, where it comes from, what it is kept for, what land and climate it suits, what it means in faith and celebration, and how many are left.

How it is arranged

Every breed is filed by region, country and, where the sources allow, by cattle town, fair, pasture, ranch or sanctuary; by purpose (dairy, beef, draught, sport, temple and more); by lineage (taurine, zebu, sanga, yak and the rest); by trait; by land and climate; by faith and tradition and by celebration. Products of the cow are drawn as rings of their inputs and made step by step, the calendar ties breeds to their fairs and festivals, and the concepts explain the words.

Pictures and drawings

Photos come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, each credited beside it. Every breed page also carries drawings made by EveryCow from what the page itself says: the animal in its coat colours, with its build, hump and horns, its height beside a person, its coat colours, its lineage, and a ring chart for products. The drawings are diagrams of a kind of animal. They are not portraits of one cow. No image on EveryCow is made by an AI image generator.

What is live

Cattle today is rebuilt every day from the calendar: which fairs, festivals, pasture days and shows are on, what is coming, and a breed of the day. New breed pages are written every day, the news wire is checked every few hours, and every page is re-read against its sources over time.

How a page is made

Names and facts come from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The text is written afresh with AI assistance from those sources only: the facts are kept, the wording is ours. Every page is then compared with its source article, and a page that repeats a run of the article's words is rewritten or held back. Each page names its source and links to it and to its licence. A page is published only if it has enough to say; anything that falls short waits for a person to review it.

What EveryCow is not

It is not a livestock market and it does not sell cattle, semen or embryos. It is not veterinary, breeding or buying advice. It is not the last word on any breed: herders, breeders and breed societies know their cattle best.

Care

Cattle are bound up with faith, identity and livelihood, and many breeds are claimed by more than one country or community. EveryCow lists a breed under every country it belongs to and reports disputed origins as disputed. Beliefs are described as tradition. Beef, sacrifice, cow protection and blood sports are described neutrally and without judgement. If a page about your cattle or your faith is wrong, write to us and we will fix it.

Who is behind it

EveryCow is published by ClearTrust, a company that measures traffic quality for the advertising industry. ClearTrust pays for EveryCow and keeps it free. EveryCow is part of the ClearTrust IVT-Free Publication Network. IVT stands for invalid traffic: visits from bots and other fakes, which the network's sites are screened for. Editorial decisions are not for sale: sponsored placements are always labelled.

Get in touch

To suggest a breed, correct a page or ask a question, write to cow@cleartrust.cc.

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