🇬🇧 The cattle breeds of the United Kingdom
20 breeds from the United Kingdom, best known first, across 80 towns, fairs and pastures.
Cattle towns and fairs of the United Kingdom
Yorkshire 3Galloway 2Ayrshire 1Bellingham 1Carlisle 1Chillingham Park 1County Down 1County Durham 1Cunningham 1Dishley 1Dunlop 1Durham 1East Torrington 1Fochabers 1Herefordshire 1Kirklevington 1Lancashire 1Luing 1Newcastleton 1Norfolk 1Scarba 1south-western Scotland 1Suffolk 1Temple Newsam Home Farm 1Torsa 1Vaynol Park 1Westmorland 1Yorkshire Dales 1AberdeenAberdeenshireAlford and the Aberdeen AngusAngusBalmoral CastleBanffBrightonBuchanCarmarthenshireCastle Douglas and GallowayCastlemartinCirencester ParkClitheroeCotswoldsCravenCrieffCumberlandDarlington and the ShorthornDerbyshireDewslandDinefwr ParkDishley and Robert BakewellEnglish MidlandsFalkirkForest of BowlandGlamorganGloucesterGloucestershireHebridesHerefordJerseyKincardineLlandoveryLlansawelLlanybydderMargam Country ParkNeath Port TalbotOban and the Highland cattle salesPembrokeshirePetworth ParkPevensey LevelsScottish HighlandsSedlescombeSevern ValleyShetland IslandsSouth CardiganshireSouth DownsThree Counties ShowTywi ValleyWestern IslandsWhalley AbbeyWick Court
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 3 moreHolstein Friesian
A black and white dairy breed kept worldwide, with red and white lines tooTaurine · Dairy
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 5 moreHereford
A red and white beef breed from Herefordshire, England, known for its white face and hardiness.Taurine · Beef · Docile
🇧🇪 Belgium and 3 moreBelgian BlueBlanc-Bleu Belge / Belgisch Witblauw
A muscular beef breed from Belgium known for its blue-grey coat and double-muscling gene.Taurine · Beef · Docile
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreGalloway
A polled black beef breed from south-west Scotland with a thick double coatTaurine · Beef · Cold-hardy
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 5 moreBelted Galloway
A polled Scottish beef breed with a distinctive white belt around its black body.Taurine · Beef · Cold-hardy
🇬🇧 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
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 moreLuing
A hardy red or dun beef cow from Luing, a Hebridean island, first made in 1947Composite · Beef · Cold-hardy
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 3 moreRed Poll
A naturally hornless red English breed, kept for milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Polled
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreSouth Devon
Huge pale-red beef cattle from Devon and Cornwall, once milked and worked as oxenTaurine · Beef
🇫🇷 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
🇨🇦 Canada and 3 moreSpeckle Park
A modern Canadian beef breed, polled and speckled black and whiteTaurine · Beef · 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
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
- Hereford: Hayden Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, source
- Luing: Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- South Devon: No machine-readable author provided. Malcolm Morley~commonswiki assume, Public domain, source
- English Longhorn: Dave, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Holstein Friesian: Vista Alegre baserria, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Galloway: GerardM, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Belgian Blue: Stoolhog, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Beef Shorthorn: Robert Scarth, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Speckle Park: Seerig, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vaynol: Claire.cojean.05, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bazadaise: The original uploader was Cyrille BERNIZET at French Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Whitebred Shorthorn: Dave Spicer, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Blue Grey: stuad70, CC BY 2.0, source
- Red Poll: Poinciana, CC BY-SA 3.0, source