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All breeds

272 breeds so far, best known first. 158 more are on the list to be written.

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🇩🇪 Germany and 3 moreHeck A German type bred in the 1920s to recreate the extinct aurochsTaurine · Grazing · Cold-hardy

🇦🇹 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

🇬🇧 United KingdomVaynolFaenol A rare Welsh park breed, white with black points or all blackTaurine · Beef · Thrifty foragers

🇬🇧 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.

Heck: 4028mdk09, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Irish Moiled: No machine-readable author provided. Malcolm Morley~commonswiki assume, Public domain, source
Vaynol: Claire.cojean.05, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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

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