All breeds
291 breeds so far, best known first. 124 more are on the list to be written.
🇬🇧 United KingdomAlderney
An extinct small dairy breed from the Channel Islands, dun or fawn and short-hornedTaurine · Dairy · Rich milk
🇮🇹 ItalyRendena
A dual-purpose Alpine breed from the Val Rendena in Trentino, chestnut to near-black.Taurine · Dual-purpose
🇮🇹 ItalyBianca Modenese
A large white dairy and beef breed from the Po Valley of northern ItalyTaurine · Dual-purpose · Docile
🇫🇷 France and 4 moreBazadaiseVasadés (Gascon)
A very large grey beef breed from Bazas in south-west France, once a timber-hauling oxTaurine · Beef · Marbled beef
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreBeef Shorthorn
A British beef line, split from the dual-purpose Shorthorn in 1958Taurine · Beef
🇫🇷 FranceMirandaise
A large, heat-tolerant draught breed from the Gers, now raised for vealTaurine · Draught · Heat-tolerant
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe and 5 moreTuli
A single-coloured Zimbabwean beef breed with a small neck hump, kin to the TswanaSanga · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇫🇮 FinlandNorthern Finncattle
A polled white landrace from Finland, kept for both milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Polled
🇫🇷 FranceLourdaiseLordés
A rare white Pyrenean breed from near Lourdes, once milk, meat and draught in oneTaurine · Beef
🇬🇧 United KingdomChillingham
A small white breed with red ears, living untamed in a Northumberland parkTaurine · Heritage · Spirited
🇺🇦 Ukraine and 5 morePodolian cattle
A group of grey, upright-horned steppe cattle breeds of EuropeTaurine · Long-horned
🇯🇵 JapanMishima見島牛
A small black beef breed that survives only on Mishima Island, JapanTaurine · Beef
🇲🇳 MongoliaMongolian cattle
An indigenous breed of Mongolia, mostly brindle or reddish brown, kept for its meatBeef
🇫🇮 FinlandEastern Finncattleitäsuomenkarja
A dual-purpose Finncattle landrace from eastern Finland, also called kyyttöTaurine · Dairy
🇩🇪 GermanyRotes Höhenvieh
A red upland breed from Germany's Central Uplands, rebuilt in 1985 from a handful of cowsTaurine · Beef
🇨🇳 ChinaYanbian
A humpless yellow breed from north-east China, a draught worker in the rice fieldsTaurine · Draught
🇩🇪 GermanyHarzer Rotvieh
A solid red upland breed from the Harz, once kept for milk, beef and draught workTaurine · Dairy · Cold-hardy
🇳🇴 NorwayDølafe
A rare, light-boned and horned Norwegian cow whose coat runs from dark brown to white.Taurine · Heritage
🇿🇦 South AfricaBonsmara
A South African beef breed built from Afrikaner, Hereford and Shorthorn linesComposite · Beef · Disease-resistant
🇮🇳 IndiaJavariಜವಾರಿ
A medium-built dual-purpose zebu from Kalyana-Karnataka, gentle and heat-tolerantZebu · Dairy · Heat-tolerant
🇪🇸 SpainMonchinaBehi montxina
A small, horned mountain beef breed from Cantabria and the Basque Country of SpainTaurine · Beef
🇺🇸 United StatesFlorida Cracker
A small Spanish-descended Criollo breed from Florida, varied in colour, kept for heritageTaurine · Triple-purpose
🇦🇺 AustraliaSquare Meater
A compact polled Australian beef breed, silver or grey, from Murray Grey stockTaurine · Beef · Polled
🇦🇷 ArgentinaArgentine Criollo
A Criollo breed of Argentina, descended from the first cattle in the AmericasTaurine · Docile
🇦🇺 AustraliaAdaptaur
A medium, dark-red Australian beef breed, bred in the 1950s to beat heat and ticksTaurine · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇫🇷 FranceMaraîchine
A large wheaten marsh breed of western France, kept for beef and wet meadowsTaurine · Beef · Disease-resistant
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandFribourgeoise
An extinct black-pied Swiss dual-purpose breed, later absorbed into the HolsteinTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇵🇰 PakistanCholistani
A large white-spotted zebu of Pakistan's Cholistan Desert, kept for milk, meat and workZebu · Dairy · Disease-resistant
🇮🇹 ItalyPezzata Rossa d'Oropa
A red-pied, dual-purpose breed from Piedmont's Vercelli and Biella provinces, ItalyTaurine · 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
🇸🇮 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
🇮🇳 IndiaSunandini
A composite Indian dairy line from local cows, Brown Swiss, Jersey and Holstein FriesianComposite · Dairy
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 moreIndu-Brasil
A Brazilian zebu beef breed from Minas Gerais with huge ears, grey coat and a humpZebu · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇩🇪 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
🇺🇿 UzbekistanBushuyevБушуевская
A zebu-derived dairy breed from Uzbekistan, white with black spotsComposite · Dairy
🇬🇪 GeorgiaRed Mingrelianმეგრული წითელი ჯიში
A compact, horned breed from western Georgia, kept for milk and beefTaurine · Dairy · Rich milk
🇺🇸 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
🇺🇸 United StatesBeefmaster
A three-way American beef cross, half Brahman, judged on the Six EssentialsComposite · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇹🇷 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
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
- Northern Finncattle: Tuomo Hämäläinen aka. Squirrel, Public domain, source
- Bonsmara: Dumbassman, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Javari: Pavanaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bianca Modenese: Superspin81, Public domain, source
- Rendena: User:Rendena, CC0, source
- Lourdaise: Darreenvt, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tuli: division, CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, source
- Florida Cracker: Florida Cracker Cattle Association, Attribution, source
- Monchina: Valledemena, Public domain, source
- Dølafe: Vegard Aukrust, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Harzer Rotvieh: Karen Alge, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Eastern Finncattle: Sini Merikallio, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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
- Beefmaster: Beefmaster Breeders United, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Alderney: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, source
- Bazadaise: The original uploader was Cyrille BERNIZET at French Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mishima: LT sfm, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Beef Shorthorn: Robert Scarth, CC BY-SA 3.0, source