Bushuyev
In its own language: Бушуевская
A zebu-derived dairy breed from Uzbekistan, white with black spots
The Bushuyev is a cattle breed from Uzbekistan, formed by crossing local zebu cattle with dairy breeds from western Europe. It is white with black spots, black ears, dark rims around the eyes and a black band across the muzzle.
- A cattle breed from Uzbekistan
- Made by crossing local zebu cattle with dairy breeds from western Europe
- White with black spots, black ears and a dark band round the muzzle
- Known in Russian as Бушуевская, romanised Bushuyevskaya
- The FAO keeps a breed profile for it
What do Bushuyev cattle look like?
The Bushuyev is a composite breed from Uzbekistan, created by crossing local zebu cattle with dairy stock from western Europe. Its coat is white and marked with black spots. The ears are black. A black band runs around the muzzle, and the skin around each eye is dark, so the eye sits inside a rim. Composite means a breed built from two or more existing breeds, and that is what the Bushuyev is. In Russian the breed is called Бушуевская, romanised as Bushuyevskaya.
Where does the Bushuyev come from?
Uzbekistan is the home of the Bushuyev. The breed was formed by crossing the zebu cattle already kept in the country with dairy breeds from western Europe. That makes it a blend of two kinds of cattle: the humped zebu, which was the local stock, and the humpless dairy cattle of Europe. It is a composite, and its European parentage is the sort of stock kept for milk. The FAO keeps a breed profile for the Bushuyev.
Bushuyev, drawn
What the Bushuyev is kept for
The Bushuyev is a milking breed by descent. The parent stock brought from western Europe was dairy cattle, so milk is the purpose the cross serves. The other side of the pedigree is the local zebu of Uzbekistan, the humped cattle kept in that country. Blending the two gives a breed that carries European dairy ancestry on a Central Asian zebu base.
Questions people ask about Bushuyev
Where does Bushuyev cattle come from?
Uzbekistan. The breed was formed there by crossing the zebu cattle already kept in the country with dairy breeds brought from western Europe. That makes it a composite, a breed built from more than one parent breed.
What does a Bushuyev look like?
The coat is white with black spots. The ears are black, the skin around each eye forms a dark rim, and a black band runs around the muzzle.
What is Bushuyev cattle kept for?
Milk. The breed was made with dairy stock from western Europe, and the other parent was the local zebu of Uzbekistan. It is a composite of those two kinds of cattle, humped zebu and humpless European dairy stock.
What is it called in Russian?
Бушуевская, written Bushuyevskaya in Latin letters. That is the Russian form of the name, and English speakers usually shorten it to Bushuyev when they write about the breed.
Good reading and sources
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