All breeds
165 breeds so far, best known first. 275 more are on the list to be written.
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese Polled無角和種
A small black Japanese beef breed, hornless in both sexesTaurine · Beef · Polled
🇵🇱 PolandPolish RedPolska czerwona
A red Polish breed kept for both milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇺🇸 United States and 5 moreSenepol
A polled red beef breed from St Croix, built for heat and insectsTaurine · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇵🇹 Portugal and 1 moreCachena
A small Iberian breed from northern Portugal and Galicia, kept for beef and formerly for draught work.Taurine · Beef · Docile
🇮🇹 ItalyAosta Black PiedValdostana Pezzata Nera
A short-horned, black-pied dual-purpose breed from the Aosta Valley in ItalyTaurine · Dual-purpose · Thrifty foragers
🇧🇷 BrazilGuzerá
A Brazilian humped breed from Kankrej and Crioulo stock, usually grey or whiteZebu · Beef · Polled
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese Brown褐毛和種
A small brown beef breed from Kōchi and Kumamoto, one of the four wagyūTaurine · Beef
🇫🇮 FinlandWestern Finncattle
A red, hornless dual-purpose breed from western Finland, kept for milk and beefTaurine · Dairy · Polled
🇦🇹 Austria and 1 moreTyrol GreyTiroler Grauvieh
An alpine dual-purpose breed of the Tyrol, milked and fattenedTaurine · Dual-purpose · Cold-hardy
🇮🇹 Italy and 3 morePustertaler SprinzenPustertaler Schecken
Rare colour-sided Alpine cattle from South Tyrol: white with brown or black flank patchesTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇫🇷 FranceVosgienne
A medium-sized French breed from the Vosges mountains, kept for milk and meatTaurine · Dual-purpose · Cold-hardy
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 moreLuing
A hardy red or dun beef cow from Luing, a Hebridean island, first made in 1947Composite · Beef · Cold-hardy
🇸🇪 SwedenVäneko
An endangered Swedish dairy breed, black or red with white, named for a villageTaurine · Dairy
🇱🇹 LithuaniaLithuanian RedLietuvos žalieji
A red beef breed from Lithuania, bred from Danish Red and local cattleTaurine · Beef · Thrifty foragers
🇩🇪 Germany and 1 moreMurnau-Werdenfels
A long-lived brown dairy breed of the Bavarian uplands, milk and beefTaurine · Dairy · Long-lived
🇦🇹 AustriaTux-ZillertalTux-Zillertaler
A stocky Alpine breed from Tirol, black or red, once bred for cow-fighting contests.Taurine · Beef · Spirited
🇮🇪 Ireland and 2 moreKerryBó Chiarraí
A rare black dairy breed from southwest Ireland, one of Europe's oldest milk cattleTaurine · Dairy · Thrifty foragers
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 3 moreRed Poll
A naturally hornless red English breed, kept for milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Polled
🇸🇪 SwedenSwedish Red PolledRödkulla
A hornless red Swedish cow kept for milk and meat, once reduced to about 20 animals.Taurine · Dual-purpose · Polled
🇪🇪 EstoniaEstonian nativeeesti maatõug
A polled dairy breed from Estonia, yellow-brown to red, with a herdbook since 1914Taurine · Dairy · Polled
🇫🇷 FranceCorse
A small tan cow from Corsica, once the island's plough ox, now reared free-range for beefTaurine · Beef · Thrifty foragers
🇫🇷 FranceArmoricaine
A red and white Breton cow kept for milk and meat, once down to forty headTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇵🇹 PortugalRamo GrandeRaça Bovina Ramo Grande
A large red-brown cattle breed from Terceira in the Azores, once used for work and milkTaurine · Triple-purpose · Thrifty foragers
🇮🇪 IrelandIrish MoiledBó Maol
A rare hornless Irish breed, red with a white back stripe, used for milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Polled
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese Shorthorn日本短角種
A small Japanese beef breed of the north, red, roan or red-pied, horned in both sexesTaurine · Beef
🇧🇷 BrazilCaracu
A solid-red Brazilian Criollo beef breed from Minas Gerais, humpless and hornedTaurine · Beef
🇦🇲 Armenia and 3 moreCaucasian Brown
A variable brown breed of the Caucasus, kept for milk and for milk with meatTaurine · Dairy
🇸🇪 SwedenBohuskulla
A rare, hornless Swedish mountain breed, usually black or brown and often colour-sidedTaurine · Heritage · Quick and strong
🇳🇴 NorwayTelemarkTelemarkfe
A small red dairy breed from Telemark in Norway, with a white cross on the backTaurine · Dairy
🇺🇦 UkraineBrown Carpathianбура карпатська
A brown dual-purpose breed from the Trans-Carpathian region of UkraineTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇩🇪 GermanyVorderwaldVorderwälder Rind
Black Forest breed with a white face and limbs, coloured patches, forward-curving hornsTaurine · Long-lived
🇪🇸 Spain and 1 moreAlbera
A small cold-hardy breed of the Albera Massif, black or pale, used to clear scrubTaurine · Beef · Cold-hardy
🇦🇹 AustriaCarinthian BlondviehKärntner Blondvieh
An old triple-purpose breed from Carinthia in Austria, white or light yellowTaurine · Triple-purpose
🇫🇷 FranceBretonne Pie Noir
A small pied black and white dairy cow from Brittany, once half a million strongTaurine · Dairy · Thrifty foragers
🇩🇪 Germany and 1 moreHinterwaldHinterwälder Rind
A small Black Forest cow, white head and pied coat, kept for both milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Cold-hardy
🇪🇸 SpainPajuna
An endangered Andalusian breed, dark bulls and red-brown cows, once used for draught workTaurine · Draught · Cold-hardy
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreSouth Devon
Huge pale-red beef cattle from Devon and Cornwall, once milked and worked as oxenTaurine · Beef
🇮🇹 ItalyBianca Modenese
A large white dairy and beef breed from the Po Valley of northern ItalyTaurine · Dual-purpose · Docile
🇬🇧 United KingdomAlderney
An extinct small dairy breed from the Channel Islands, dun or fawn and short-hornedTaurine · Dairy · Rich milk
🇫🇮 FinlandEastern Finncattleitäsuomenkarja
A dual-purpose Finncattle landrace from eastern Finland, also called kyyttöTaurine · Dairy
🇫🇮 FinlandNorthern Finncattle
A polled white landrace from Finland, kept for both milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Polled
🇺🇦 Ukraine and 5 morePodolian cattle
A group of grey, upright-horned steppe cattle breeds of EuropeTaurine · Long-horned
🇫🇷 France and 4 moreBazadaiseVasadés (Gascon)
A very large grey beef breed from Bazas in south-west France, once a timber-hauling oxTaurine · Beef · Marbled beef
🇮🇹 ItalyRendena
A dual-purpose Alpine breed from the Val Rendena in Trentino, chestnut to near-black.Taurine · Dual-purpose
🇯🇵 JapanMishima見島牛
A small black beef breed that survives only on Mishima Island, JapanTaurine · Beef
🇫🇷 FranceLourdaiseLordés
A rare white Pyrenean breed from near Lourdes, once milk, meat and draught in oneTaurine · Beef
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreBeef Shorthorn
A British beef line, split from the dual-purpose Shorthorn in 1958Taurine · Beef
🇫🇷 FranceFrench Simmental
A large French dairy breed, red pied with a white head, milked for comtéTaurine · Dairy
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Lithuanian Red: Aleksandrs Timofejevs, CC0, source
- Swedish Red Polled: Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cachena: Rosino, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Japanese Polled: JIRCAS Library, CC BY 2.0, source
- Tux-Zillertal: Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Polish Red: myself ( User:Piotrus ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tyrol Grey: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Väneko: Philaweb, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Guzerá: Jose Reynaldo da Fonseca, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Telemark: Torstein Frogner, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bohuskulla: Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Western Finncattle: MPorciusCato (cropped by Pitke ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vosgienne: Eponimm, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Japanese Shorthorn: JIRCAS Library, CC BY 2.0, source
- Luing: Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Senepol: Buenoperez, Public domain, source
- Aosta Black Pied: Lohen11, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Irish Moiled: No machine-readable author provided. Malcolm Morley~commonswiki assume, Public domain, source
- Ramo Grande: Carlos Luis M C da Cruz, Public domain, source
- Bazadaise: The original uploader was Cyrille BERNIZET at French Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- South Devon: No machine-readable author provided. Malcolm Morley~commonswiki assume, Public domain, source
- Murnau-Werdenfels: Pippo-b, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kerry: Pedroserafin, CC BY 2.5, source
- Red Poll: Poinciana, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Corse: luiginter, CC BY 2.0, source
- Pajuna: DFoidl, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Armoricaine: Yannig.coulomb, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Caracu: Nevinho, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vorderwald: Flominator, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bianca Modenese: Superspin81, Public domain, source
- Albera: Tylwyth Eldar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Carinthian Blondvieh: Mefusbren69, Public domain, source
- Bretonne Pie Noir: Tsaag Valren, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rendena: User:Rendena, CC0, source
- Hinterwald: -- Xocolatl 10:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC), Public domain, source
- Lourdaise: Darreenvt, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Beef Shorthorn: Robert Scarth, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- French Simmental: Grimlock, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Alderney: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, source
- Eastern Finncattle: Sini Merikallio, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Northern Finncattle: Tuomo Hämäläinen aka. Squirrel, Public domain, source
- Mishima: LT sfm, CC BY-SA 3.0, source