Breeds beginning with A
13 breeds under A.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 1 moreAbigar
A hardy sanga breed of western Ethiopia and Sudan, kept for milk and beefSanga · Dairy · Heat-tolerant
🇫🇷 France and 2 moreAbondance
A red and white dairy breed from the French Alps, kept for milk and mountain grazing.Taurine · Dairy · Heat-tolerant
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 moreAfrikaner
A Sanga-type breed from South Africa, deep red with long horns, kept for beef and draught work.Sanga · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇮🇳 IndiaAlambadi
A humped draught breed from Tamil Nadu, horned and now close to extinctionZebu · Draught · Quick and strong
🇰🇿 KazakhstanAlatau
A dual-purpose beef and dairy breed from Kazakhstan, named after the Alatau MountainsDual-purpose
🇪🇸 Spain and 1 moreAlbera
A small cold-hardy breed of the Albera Massif, black or pale, used to clear scrubTaurine · Beef · Cold-hardy
🇮🇳 IndiaAmrit Mahalಅಮೃತ ಮಹಲ್
A draught breed from Karnataka, bred for war and endurance by the Mysore royal household.Taurine · Draught · Quick and strong
🇺🇸 United StatesAnkole-Watusi
A large-horned American breed derived from African Sanga cattle, kept for its distinctive horns and hardy build.Sanga · Heritage · Long-horned
🇮🇹 ItalyAosta Black PiedValdostana Pezzata Nera
A short-horned, black-pied dual-purpose breed from the Aosta Valley in ItalyTaurine · Dual-purpose · Thrifty foragers
🇫🇷 FranceArmoricaine
A red and white Breton cow kept for milk and meat, once down to forty headTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇰🇿 KazakhstanAulie-Ata
A dairy breed from Kazakhstan, made from native stock and Dutch Black PiedComposite · Dairy
🇵🇱 Poland and 5 moreAurochs
The wild ancestor of all domestic cattle, extinct since 1627Wild · Long-horned
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 moreAyrshire
Red-and-white dairy cattle from south-west Scotland, hardy, long-lived and easy calversTaurine · Dairy · Easy calving
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Abigar: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Abondance: Walpole, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Aosta Black Pied: Lohen11, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Aurochs: Jaap Rouwenhorst (photograph) DFoidl (GIMP modifications), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ayrshire: Biggle, Jacob., Public domain, source
- Alambadi: Thamizhpparithi Maari, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Afrikaner: Amada44, Public domain, source
- Amrit Mahal: Pavanaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Armoricaine: Yannig.coulomb, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ankole-Watusi: Vassil, Public domain, source
- Albera: Tylwyth Eldar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source