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Deliboz
Description: This breed of oriental saddle horses was formed in Kazakh, Akstafa and Tauz regions of Azerbaijan and adjacent areas of Georgia and Armenia. Some earlier publications described it as the “Kazakh” horse of Azerbaijan or as the Azerbaijan horse.
Specialists singled out a specific Deliboz type among large horse populations studied in the 1930s and late 1940s. Read the rest of this entry »
Bashkir
Description: The breed was formed in the mountain and steppe zone adjacent to the Volga and the Urals. The Bashkir was used as a draft and utility horse and as a producer of milk and meat.
The Bashkir is a small, wide-bodied and bony horse. It has a massive head and a short and fleshy neck. Read the rest of this entry »
American Cream Draft
An Iowa Treasure
‘Old Granny’ the first known American Cream, appeared at a farm sale in Story County, Iowa, in 1911. By approximation, her foaling date was somewhere between 1900 and 1905. She appeared to have nothing but draft breeding in her bloodlines. A veterinarian, Eric Christian, was very much attracted by the beauty of her foals and persuaded Nelson Bros. of Jewell, Iowa, to keep a colt, Nelson’s Buck, Read the rest of this entry »
Altai
Description:
The Altai were developed over a long expanse of time and have been significantly influenced by the harsh continental climate and the conditions specific to the mountain taiga which they call home.
Yanbian
Description:
Yanbian cattle are mainly distributed in the North Agriculture Area of China, and have entirely different ecological conditions from those of the North Pastoral Grassland cattle. They are also found in other Provinces of the northeast, such as Heilongjiang Province, Read the rest of this entry »
Estonian Red
Description:
In the middle of the 1800s the local Estonian cattle were crossed with the Angeln breed. Later to improve the crosses Danish Red animals were used. The aim was to form a breed with high milk yield and high fat content. The first Estonian Red animals were entered in the herdbook in 1885. Read the rest of this entry »
Aulie-Ata
Description:
The creation of this breed started in 1885 in the Aulie-Ata district of Kirgizia. The local Kazakh cattle were crossed with the Dutch Black Pied breed and the crosses were bred inter se. The crossbreds gradually spread to other regions of Kirgizia and Kazakhstan and to some areas of Uzbekistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Zhongwei goat
Description:
Zhongwei goats are produced only in the arid desert steppes of some counties in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Gansu Province. They live chiefly, if not solely, on salty or sandy plants or shrubs. The kids are slaughtered at 35 days of age for their pelts, which have white, Read the rest of this entry »
White shorthaired goat (WSG)
Also Known By:
Bila Kratkosrsta Koza
This breed originated from a landrace which was not uniform in color, mostly light-brown to white, which were improved by crossing with Swiss Saanen bucks since the early 1900s. Read the rest of this entry »
Russian White
Also Known By:
Improved Northern Russian, Russian Dairy, Russian White Dairy, Russkaya belaya (Russian)
Dairy goats, of the Saanen and Toggenburg breeds, have been imported periodically from Switzerland and other European countries; Read the rest of this entry »