All breeds
230 breeds so far, best known first. 207 more are on the list to be written.
🇩🇪 Germany and 3 moreHeck
A German type bred in the 1920s to recreate the extinct aurochsTaurine · Grazing · Cold-hardy
🇺🇸 United StatesTexas Longhorn
American beef cattle, once feral on Texas ranges, with horn spreads beyond 2.4 mTaurine · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 5 moreBelted Galloway
A polled Scottish beef breed with a distinctive white belt around its black body.Taurine · Beef · Cold-hardy
🇫🇷 France and 2 moreAbondance
A red and white dairy breed from the French Alps, kept for milk and mountain grazing.Taurine · Dairy · Heat-tolerant
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 3 moreEnglish Longhorn
A large horned beef breed from northern England, marked by a white line along the spineTaurine · Beef · Long-horned
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandHérens
A small black or red Swiss alpine breed kept for cow fighting and mountain grazing.Taurine · Sport · Quick and strong
🇸🇪 SwedenVäneko
An endangered Swedish dairy breed, black or red with white, named for a villageTaurine · Dairy
🇦🇹 AustriaTux-ZillertalTux-Zillertaler
A stocky Alpine breed from Tirol, black or red, once bred for cow-fighting contests.Taurine · Beef · Spirited
🇮🇪 IrelandIrish MoiledBó Maol
A rare hornless Irish breed, red with a white back stripe, used for milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Polled
🇪🇸 Spain and 1 moreAlbera
A small cold-hardy breed of the Albera Massif, black or pale, used to clear scrubTaurine · Beef · Cold-hardy
🇩🇪 GermanyRotes Höhenvieh
A red upland breed from Germany's Central Uplands, rebuilt in 1985 from a handful of cowsTaurine · Beef
🇬🇧 United KingdomVaynolFaenol
A rare Welsh park breed, white with black points or all blackTaurine · Beef · Thrifty foragers
🇩🇪 GermanyGerman AngusDeutsch Angus
A polled German beef breed, black, brown or red, from Aberdeen Angus crossesTaurine · Beef · Docile
🇬🇧 United KingdomWhitebred Shorthorn
An always-white beef Shorthorn from the border hills, hardy and thriftyTaurine · Beef · Thrifty foragers
🇬🇧 United KingdomBlue Grey
A blue roan suckler cow, bred from a black Galloway dam and a white Shorthorn sireTaurine · Beef · Polled
🇮🇪 IrelandDroimeann
A small Irish dual-purpose cow with a white stripe down its backTaurine · Dual-purpose · Docile
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Belted Galloway: Jamain, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Heck: 4028mdk09, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Väneko: Philaweb, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rotes Höhenvieh: Martin Lindner, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Abondance: Walpole, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Irish Moiled: No machine-readable author provided. Malcolm Morley~commonswiki assume, Public domain, source
- Hérens: Joe Byrne, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- English Longhorn: Dave, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Texas Longhorn: Clinton & Charles Robertson, CC BY 2.0, source
- Albera: Tylwyth Eldar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Vaynol: Claire.cojean.05, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- German Angus: Bernd.K, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Whitebred Shorthorn: Dave Spicer, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Tux-Zillertal: Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Blue Grey: stuad70, CC BY 2.0, source