All breeds
211 breeds so far, best known first. 228 more are on the list to be written.
🇪🇸 SpainMonchinaBehi montxina
A small, horned mountain beef breed from Cantabria and the Basque Country of SpainTaurine · Beef
🇩🇪 GermanyHarzer Rotvieh
A solid red upland breed from the Harz, once kept for milk, beef and draught workTaurine · Dairy · Cold-hardy
🇫🇮 FinlandEastern Finncattleitäsuomenkarja
A dual-purpose Finncattle landrace from eastern Finland, also called kyyttöTaurine · Dairy
🇯🇵 JapanMishima見島牛
A small black beef breed that survives only on Mishima Island, JapanTaurine · Beef
🇫🇷 FranceMirandaise
A large, heat-tolerant draught breed from the Gers, now raised for vealTaurine · Draught · Heat-tolerant
🇦🇹 Austria and 1 moreMurbodenMurbodner Rind
An Austrian mountain breed kept for milk, meat and draught workTaurine · Dairy
🇵🇹 PortugalMertolenga
A southern Portuguese beef breed from Mértola, once a draught ox in the rice fieldsTaurine · Beef
🇬🇪 GeorgiaRed Mingrelianმეგრული წითელი ჯიში
A compact, horned breed from western Georgia, kept for milk and beefTaurine · Dairy · Rich milk
🇵🇹 PortugalAlentejana
A rustic, gentle meat breed from Portugal's Alentejo region, once used for field workTaurine · Beef · Docile
🇦🇺 AustraliaAdaptaur
A medium, dark-red Australian beef breed, bred in the 1950s to beat heat and ticksTaurine · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇨🇦 Canada and 3 moreSpeckle Park
A modern Canadian beef breed, polled and speckled black and whiteTaurine · Beef · Polled
🇵🇹 PortugalMinhota
A tall beef breed from Minho in northern Portugal, once also worked and milked.Taurine · Beef
🇬🇧 United KingdomVaynolFaenol
A rare Welsh park breed, white with black points or all blackTaurine · Beef · Thrifty foragers
🇫🇷 FranceMaraîchine
A large wheaten marsh breed of western France, kept for beef and wet meadowsTaurine · Beef · Disease-resistant
🇦🇺 AustraliaSquare Meater
A compact polled Australian beef breed, silver or grey, from Murray Grey stockTaurine · Beef · Polled
🇸🇮 SloveniaCikaCikasto govedo
A small red-brown dairy breed from Slovenia's alpine valleys, with a white line along the backTaurine · Dairy · Thrifty foragers
🇩🇪 GermanyGerman AngusDeutsch Angus
A polled German beef breed, black, brown or red, from Aberdeen Angus crossesTaurine · Beef · Docile
🇮🇹 Italy and 2 moreNorth American Piedmontese
A North American beef breed from Italian Piedmontese stock, heavily muscled and mostly grey-whiteTaurine · Beef · Easy calving
🇹🇼 TaiwanYuanxing源興牛
A rare Tajima-line beef breed from Taiwan, black-brown and horned, saved by Lee Teng-huiTaurine · Beef
🇨🇮 Ivory Coast and 1 moreBaoulé
A dwarf shorthorn of the Ivory Coast savanna, black-coated and kept by Fula herdersTaurine · Dairy
🇦🇺 AustraliaTasmanian Grey
A polled beef breed from Tasmania, grey or dun, with Angus and Shorthorn rootsTaurine · Beef · Polled
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Maraîchine: Eponimm, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Monchina: Valledemena, Public domain, source
- Harzer Rotvieh: Karen Alge, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Eastern Finncattle: Sini Merikallio, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Mishima: LT sfm, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mirandaise: PANDA 81, CC0, source
- Speckle Park: Seerig, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Minhota: Figueiredo, Pedro, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vaynol: Claire.cojean.05, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cika: romanm ( talk ), Public domain, source
- Murboden: Marion Schneider & Christoph Aistleitner, Public domain, source
- German Angus: Bernd.K, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- North American Piedmontese: Atsme, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Alentejana: Tiago Lima, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mertolenga: Joao 1968, CC BY-SA 3.0, source