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🇬🇧 The cattle breeds of the United Kingdom

20 breeds from the United Kingdom, best known first, across 80 towns, fairs and pastures.

Cattle town Fair or market Pasture Ranch country Sanctuary or reserve City

Cattle towns and fairs of the United Kingdom

Galloway 2 Yorkshire 2 Ayrshire 1 Bellingham 1 Carlisle 1 Chillingham Park 1 County Down 1 Cunningham 1 Dishley 1 Dunlop 1 Durham 1 East Torrington 1 Fochabers 1 Herefordshire 1 Lancashire 1 Luing 1 Newcastleton 1 Norfolk 1 Scarba 1 south-western Scotland 1 Suffolk 1 Temple Newsam Home Farm 1 Torsa 1 Vaynol Park 1 Westmorland 1 Yorkshire Dales 1 Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alford and the Aberdeen Angus Angus Balmoral Castle Banff Brighton Buchan Carmarthenshire Castle Douglas and Galloway Castlemartin Cirencester Park Clitheroe Cotswolds Craven Crieff Cumberland Darlington and the Shorthorn Derbyshire Dewsland Dinefwr Park Dishley and Robert Bakewell English Midlands Falkirk Forest of Bowland Glamorgan Gloucester Gloucestershire Hebrides Hereford Jersey Kincardine Llandovery Llansawel Llanybydder Margam Country Park Neath Port Talbot Oban and the Highland cattle sales Pembrokeshire Petworth Park Pevensey Levels Scottish Highlands Sedlescombe Severn Valley Shetland Islands South Cardiganshire South Downs Three Counties Show Tywi Valley Western Islands Whalley Abbey Wick Court Windsor Wragby

🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 moreAyrshire Red-and-white dairy cattle from south-west Scotland, hardy, long-lived and easy calversTaurine · Dairy · Easy calving

🇬🇧 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 2 moreLuing A hardy red or dun beef cow from Luing, a Hebridean island, first made in 1947Composite · Beef · Cold-hardy

🇬🇧 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
Luing: Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Galloway: GerardM, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Ayrshire: Biggle, Jacob., Public domain, source
Whitebred Shorthorn: Dave Spicer, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Blue Grey: stuad70, CC BY 2.0, source

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