All breeds
291 breeds so far, best known first. 124 more are on the list to be written.
🇷🇺 RussiaRed TambovКрасная тамбовская
A red dual-purpose breed from Tambov Oblast in Russia, kept for milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇧🇷 BrazilPantaneiro
A small Criollo breed of Brazil's Pantanal wetlands, now endangeredTaurine · Heat-tolerant
🇮🇳 IndiaPulikulam
A drought-hardy zebu from Tamil Nadu, known for its Jallikattu bullsZebu · Sport · Drought-hardy
🇦🇷 ArgentinaArgentine Criollo
A Criollo breed of Argentina, descended from the first cattle in the AmericasTaurine · Docile
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandFribourgeoise
An extinct black-pied Swiss dual-purpose breed, later absorbed into the HolsteinTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇵🇹 PortugalMertolenga
A southern Portuguese beef breed from Mértola, once a draught ox in the rice fieldsTaurine · Beef
🇨🇦 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
🇦🇺 Australia and 1 moreAustralian Charbray
A big, cream to light red composite of Charolais and Brahman blood for the tropicsComposite · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇪🇪 EstoniaEstonian RedEesti punane veis
A red-coated dairy breed from Estonia, formed from local cows and imported red stockTaurine · Dairy
🇮🇪 IrelandDroimeann
A small Irish dual-purpose cow with a white stripe down its backTaurine · Dual-purpose · Docile
🇮🇳 IndiaFrieswal
A crossbred dairy cow of India, part Holstein Friesian and part Sahiwal, made for milkComposite · Dairy · Rich milk
🇳🇿 New ZealandEnderby Island cattle
A feral herd from a subantarctic island: small, long-barrelled, mostly black and whiteTaurine · Heritage · Cold-hardy
🇵🇹 PortugalAlgarvia
A red or chestnut triple-purpose breed from the Algarve, rebuilt from survivorsTaurine · Dairy
🇦🇷 Argentina and 1 moreNiata
A short-faced dwarf breed once kept in Uruguay and Argentina, extinct by the early 1900s.Taurine · Spirited
🇺🇸 United StatesHawaiian wild cattle
Feral cattle descended from animals given to a Hawaiian king in the 1790sTaurine · Spirited
🇨🇴 ColombiaLucerna
A Colombian dual-purpose composite, cherry-red and medium in sizeComposite · Dual-purpose
🇺🇸 United StatesWaguli
A composite beef breed from Arizona, made from Zimbabwean Tuli and Japanese WagyuComposite · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇵🇹 PortugalGarvonesa
Dark-coated draught cattle from Portugal's Alentejo, with black head, legs and tailTaurine · Draught
🇺🇸 United StatesBarzona
A four-way American beef blend from Arizona, bred to shrug off heat, insects and diseaseComposite · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇦🇺 AustraliaIllawarra Shorthorn
A large red Australian dairy breed, horned, docile and long-livedTaurine · Dairy · Docile
🇹🇩 ChadKuri
A heavy humpless longhorn from the shores of Lake Chad, kept for milk, meat and workTaurine · Triple-purpose · Long-horned
🇲🇱 Mali and 5 moreRed Bororo
A red-brown Sanga cattle of the Sahel, with long lyre-shaped hornsSanga · Dairy · Heat-tolerant
🇵🇭 PhilippinesPhilippine Native
A small island zebu of the Philippines, kept for milk, meat and workZebu · Triple-purpose
🇳🇮 NicaraguaLa Reina
A red, slick-coated dairy breed from Nicaragua, kept for milk, meat and workTaurine · Triple-purpose · Heat-tolerant
🇮🇹 ItalySarda
A small horned beef breed from Sardinia with a dark stripe along its spineTaurine · Beef
🇪🇸 SpainAlistana-Sanabresa
A reddish beef breed from Aliste and Sanabria in Castile and León, SpainTaurine · Beef
🇪🇹 EthiopiaFogera
A humped Ethiopian zebu from the Fogera Plain, broad-hoofed for life in the marshes.Zebu · Triple-purpose
🇪🇹 EthiopiaBegayt
A black and white stained Zebu-Sanga breed from Western TigrayZebu · Draught
🇮🇹 ItalyModicana
A horned dual-purpose breed from Ragusa province, Sicily, in wheaten to near-black coats.Dual-purpose
🇺🇸 United StatesDutch Belted
An American dairy breed, black or red, with a wide white band around the middleTaurine · Dairy · Polled
🇳🇿 New ZealandCampbell Island cattle
A feral herd on a New Zealand island, extinct by about 1984Taurine
🇺🇸 United StatesRed Brangus
A polled, red beef breed from Texas, built from Angus and Brahman stockComposite · Beef · Polled
🇺🇸 United StatesPineywoods
A small, tough criollo breed of the American South, kept for milk, meat and ox workTriple-purpose · Heat-tolerant
🇪🇷 EritreaBaherie
A small short-horned zebu from the Eritrean seaboard, kept for milk and meatZebu · Dual-purpose
🇧🇼 Botswana and 1 moreTswana
An indigenous beef breed of Botswana, a Sanga type with red or black coatsSanga · Beef · Heat-tolerant
🇷🇺 RussiaKurgan
A dual-purpose breed from south-western Siberia, red, red and white or roanComposite · Dairy
🇷🇺 RussiaRed GorbatovКрасная горбатовская
A red dairy breed from Gorbatov in central Russia, with white horns tipped blackTaurine · Dairy · Disease-resistant
🇨🇭 Switzerland and 3 moreOriginal Braunvieh
A Swiss dual-purpose brown cow kept pure, unlike the modern BraunviehTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇯🇲 JamaicaJamaica Hope
A heat-tolerant Jamaican dairy breed built from zebu and European dairy bloodComposite · Dairy · Heat-tolerant
🇺🇸 United StatesAmerifax
A beef breed from the United States, five parts Angus to three parts Beef FriesianComposite · Beef
🇮🇹 ItalyAbruzzesePodolica abruzzese di montagna
Extinct grey Italian breed of the Podolic group, once kept for meat and draughtTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇵🇰 PakistanLohani
A small Pakistani zebu kept for ploughing and pack work, red and whiteZebu · Triple-purpose
🇵🇰 PakistanDhanni
A humped Pakistani working zebu, usually white with dark spots and short hornsZebu · Draught · Quick and strong
🇪🇹 EthiopiaAbergele
A very small humped breed from the Abergele lowlands of northern Ethiopia, mostly red.Sanga · Triple-purpose · Heat-tolerant
🇪🇹 EthiopiaHorro
A brown sanga breed of western Ethiopia, worked as oxen and milkedSanga · Triple-purpose
🇨🇺 Cuba and 5 moreCriollo cattle
American cattle of Iberian descent, grouped into many local breedsTaurine
🇬🇷 GreeceGreek Shorthorn
A rare, small hill breed of north-west Greece, grey-blond to dark brown in colourTaurine
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Philippine Native: Rene G. Abad, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Waguli: Mmontanamcintosh, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- 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
- Australian Charbray: Charbray Society Of Australia Ltd, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Niata: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Hawaiian wild cattle: W Nowicki, CC BY 3.0, source
- Kuri: Amadouibrahim2, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Red Bororo: Dorothy Habila, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Red Brangus: ZacStewart00, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tswana: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Original Braunvieh: Goldmull, CC BY-SA 3.0, source