All breeds
291 breeds so far, best known first. 124 more are on the list to be written.
🇺🇸 United StatesTexas Longhorn
American beef cattle, once feral on Texas ranges, with horn spreads beyond 2.4 mTaurine · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇮🇹 Italy and 5 moreChianina
A massive white Italian breed known for beef production and historic draught work in Tuscany.Taurine · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇬🇳 Guinea and 5 moreN'Dama
A West African breed that can live where tsetse flies carry trypanosomiasisTaurine · Disease-resistant
🇭🇷 Croatia and 5 moreBuša
A little mountain cow of the Balkans with short horns, kept for milk, meat and workTaurine · Triple-purpose · Disease-resistant
🇪🇸 SpainMenorquina
A red, hornless dairy breed from the Spanish island of Menorca, prized for Mahón cheese production.Taurine · Dairy · Disease-resistant
🇮🇳 IndiaMalnad Giddaಮಲೆನಾಡು ಗಿಡ್ಡ
A small, dark humpless breed from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, kept for milk and draught work.Taurine · Dairy · Disease-resistant
🇺🇸 United States and 5 moreSenepol
A polled red beef breed from St Croix, built for heat and insectsTaurine · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇸🇩 Sudan and 4 moreSanga cattle
The umbrella name for native African cattle, mixing humpless taurine and zebu bloodTaurine · Disease-resistant
🇫🇷 FranceMaraîchine
A large wheaten marsh breed of western France, kept for beef and wet meadowsTaurine · Beef · Disease-resistant
🇹🇷 TurkeyAnatolian BlackYerli Kara
Turkey's smallest native breed, a short-horned black cow used for milk, meat and draughtTaurine · Triple-purpose · Disease-resistant
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandÉvolène
An endangered dual-purpose breed from the Swiss Alps, pied red or black with horns in both sexesTaurine · Dual-purpose · Cold-hardy
🇧🇷 BrazilPantaneiro
A small Criollo breed of Brazil's Pantanal wetlands, now endangeredTaurine · Heat-tolerant
🇦🇺 AustraliaAdaptaur
A medium, dark-red Australian beef breed, bred in the 1950s to beat heat and ticksTaurine · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇷🇺 RussiaRed GorbatovКрасная горбатовская
A red dairy breed from Gorbatov in central Russia, with white horns tipped blackTaurine · Dairy · Disease-resistant
🇬🇧 United KingdomSwona
A feral herd on an Orkney island, on its own since the last people left in 1974Taurine · Beef · Disease-resistant
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Menorquina: Discasto, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Malnad Gidda: Pavanaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Maraîchine: Eponimm, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Senepol: Buenoperez, Public domain, source
- Sanga cattle: Just chaos, CC BY 2.0, source
- Texas Longhorn: Clinton & Charles Robertson, CC BY 2.0, source
- N'Dama: ILRI, CC BY 2.0, source
- Buša: P.Cikovac, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Anatolian Black: Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Évolène: Trigaranus, Public domain, source
- Chianina: Monica, CC BY 2.0, source
- Swona: Ian Balcombe, CC BY-SA 2.0, source