All breeds
210 breeds so far, best known first. 229 more are on the list to be written.
🇩🇪 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
🇫🇮 FinlandNorthern Finncattle
A polled white landrace from Finland, kept for both milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Polled
🇯🇵 JapanMishima見島牛
A small black beef breed that survives only on Mishima Island, JapanTaurine · Beef
🇬🇧 United KingdomChillingham
A small white breed with red ears, living untamed in a Northumberland parkTaurine · Heritage · Spirited
🇨🇳 ChinaYanbian
A humpless yellow breed from north-east China, a draught worker in the rice fieldsTaurine · Draught
🇮🇹 ItalyBianca Modenese
A large white dairy and beef breed from the Po Valley of northern ItalyTaurine · Dual-purpose · Docile
🇫🇷 FranceMirandaise
A large, heat-tolerant draught breed from the Gers, now raised for vealTaurine · Draught · Heat-tolerant
🇩🇪 GermanyRotes Höhenvieh
A red upland breed from Germany's Central Uplands, rebuilt in 1985 from a handful of cowsTaurine · Beef
🇬🇧 United KingdomAlderney
An extinct small dairy breed from the Channel Islands, dun or fawn and short-hornedTaurine · Dairy · Rich milk
🇵🇹 PortugalMertolenga
A southern Portuguese beef breed from Mértola, once a draught ox in the rice fieldsTaurine · Beef
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandÉvolène
An endangered dual-purpose breed from the Swiss Alps, pied red or black with horns in both sexesTaurine · Dual-purpose · Cold-hardy
🇫🇮 FinlandFinncattle
Small, hornless Finnish dairy cattle in three types: red, white and red-and-whiteTaurine · Dairy · Polled
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandFribourgeoise
An extinct black-pied Swiss dual-purpose breed, later absorbed into the HolsteinTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇨🇦 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
🇪🇪 EstoniaEstonian RedEesti punane veis
A red-coated dairy breed from Estonia, formed from local cows and imported red stockTaurine · Dairy
🇸🇪 SwedenSwedish PolledSvensk Kullig Boskap
A hornless red dairy cow from Sweden, formed in 1937 from the Rödkulla and Fjäll breedsTaurine · Dairy · Polled
🇬🇧 United KingdomVaynolFaenol
A rare Welsh park breed, white with black points or all blackTaurine · Beef · Thrifty foragers
🇮🇹 ItalyGarfagnina
A horned, brindled grey dual-purpose breed from TuscanyTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇫🇷 FranceMaraîchine
A large wheaten marsh breed of western France, kept for beef and wet meadowsTaurine · Beef · Disease-resistant
🇸🇮 SloveniaCikaCikasto govedo
A small red-brown dairy breed from Slovenia's alpine valleys, with a white line along the backTaurine · Dairy · Thrifty foragers
🇰🇷 South KoreaJeju Black제주흑우
A small black taurine breed kept on Jeju Island, now a national monumentTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇩🇪 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
🇬🇪 GeorgiaRed Mingrelianმეგრული წითელი ჯიში
A compact, horned breed from western Georgia, kept for milk and beefTaurine · Dairy · Rich milk
🇧🇷 BrazilPantaneiro
A small Criollo breed of Brazil's Pantanal wetlands, now endangeredTaurine · Heat-tolerant
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreAmerican Milking Devon
A red American dual-purpose breed, kept for milk and beef and now critically rareTaurine · Dual-purpose · Thrifty foragers
🇵🇹 PortugalAlentejana
A rustic, gentle meat breed from Portugal's Alentejo region, once used for field workTaurine · Beef · Docile
🇹🇷 TurkeyAnatolian BlackYerli Kara
Turkey's smallest native breed, a short-horned black cow used for milk, meat and draughtTaurine · Triple-purpose · Disease-resistant
🇷🇺 RussiaRed TambovКрасная тамбовская
A red dual-purpose breed from Tambov Oblast in Russia, kept for milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇦🇺 AustraliaAdaptaur
A medium, dark-red Australian beef breed, bred in the 1950s to beat heat and ticksTaurine · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇩🇪 GermanyGerman Red PiedDeutsche Rotbunte
A red pied lowland breed from Germany, shaped in several regionsTaurine
🇦🇺 AustraliaSquare Meater
A compact polled Australian beef breed, silver or grey, from Murray Grey stockTaurine · Beef · Polled
🇮🇹 ItalyPezzata Rossa d'Oropa
A red-pied, dual-purpose breed from Piedmont's Vercelli and Biella provinces, ItalyTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇫🇮 FinlandFinnish AyrshireSuomen Ayrshire
Finland's most numerous dairy breed, red and white, from Scottish Ayrshire stockTaurine · Dairy · Rich milk
🇦🇷 ArgentinaArgentine Criollo
A Criollo breed of Argentina, descended from the first cattle in the AmericasTaurine · Docile
🇬🇷 GreeceGreek Shorthorn
A rare, small hill breed of north-west Greece, grey-blond to dark brown in colourTaurine
🇻🇪 VenezuelaTipo Carora
A Venezuelan dairy breed, pale fawn or white with black skinTaurine · Dairy · Heat-tolerant
🇹🇼 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
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Swedish Red Polled: Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Maraîchine: Eponimm, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rotes Höhenvieh: Martin Lindner, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pezzata Rossa d'Oropa: CosyCobra, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bianca Modenese: Superspin81, Public domain, source
- Harzer Rotvieh: Karen Alge, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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
- Chillingham: C Michael Hogan, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Mirandaise: PANDA 81, CC0, source
- Speckle Park: Seerig, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Minhota: Figueiredo, Pedro, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Estonian Red: Sillerkiil, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Vaynol: Claire.cojean.05, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Garfagnina: Mael Beau, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cika: romanm ( talk ), Public domain, source
- Jeju Black: Jeju black cattle, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- German Angus: Bernd.K, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- North American Piedmontese: Atsme, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- American Milking Devon: Carly & Art, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Alentejana: Tiago Lima, CC BY 2.0, source
- Anatolian Black: Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Red Tambov: No machine-readable author provided. Nasiruddin assumed (based on copy, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Mertolenga: Joao 1968, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Alderney: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, source
- Finnish Ayrshire: Ximonic , Simo Räsänen, GFDL, source
- Évolène: Trigaranus, Public domain, source
- Finncattle: Eero Järnefelt, Public domain, source