Posts Tagged ‘milk production’
Swedish Red-and-White
Also Known By: Svensk Rod och Vit Boskap, SRB, Swedish Red Spotted
The Swedish Red-and-White is the most common dairy breed found in Sweden. It is red with small white markings. The breed originated from Red Pied Swedish and Swedish Ayrshire. Read the rest of this entry »
Swedish Friesian
Also Known By: Svensk Laglandsboskap, SLB, Black and White Swedish, Swedish Lowland.
The SLB is the second biggest cattle-breed in Sweden. The cows weigh about 600 kg and give about 7900 kg milk in one year. This breed originates from Germany and Holland. The Swedish Friesian are a dairy breed originating from Dutch imports made from 1860 to 1907 and a few select recent importations. Read the rest of this entry »
Sussex
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The Sussex was developed in southeast England primarily a beef breed. Improvement of the breed did not begin until the late 18th century. The herdbook was established in 1874, and a polled section was added in 1979. Read the rest of this entry »
South Devon
An English Breed Alternative
The South Devon originate from the counties of Devon and Cornwall in Southwest England, where they have been a distinct breed since the 16th century. They are the largest of the British breeds and are not related to Devon cattle which are also from England. Read the rest of this entry »
Slovenian Cika
Also known by: Tolmin Cika, Bohinj Cika, Bohinjska cika, Tolminaka cika
The Tolmin or Bohinj Cika, a brown piebald cow, is a lighter variety of Pinzgauer (belan) cattle which used to be the largely prevalent breed in Tolminsko, Gorenjska and the surroundings of Ormo and Ptuj in the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century. Read the rest of this entry »
Siri
Origin
Animals of this breed are found in the hill tracts around Darjeeling (Bengal, India) and in Sikkim and Bhutan. Bhutan is said to be the real home of this breed. It is distributed from that area to the various parts of Sikkim and Darjeeling. The Siri has a hump that is thoracic and muscular-fatty. Presumably Siri cattle have some blood from the cattle in Tibet. Small cattle with similar black and white markings have been found in Sikong Province of China, which occupies a portion of the Tibetan highlands northeast of Bhutan. Read the rest of this entry »
Simmental
A History of the Simmental Breed
The Simmental is among the oldest and most widely distributed of all breeds of cattle in the world. Although the first herd book was established in the Swiss Canton of Berne in 1806, there is evidence of large, Read the rest of this entry »
Simbrah
The Simbrah Breed
An experiment combining Simmental with Brahman that began in the pastures of a few dedicated cattlemen in the late 1960s has evolved logically into the breed called Simbrah. The Brahman or Zebu, the most numerous cattle type on earth, Read the rest of this entry »
Siboney
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The Siboney has been developed in Cuba since the late 1960′s. The breed is 5/8 Holstein and 3/8 Cuban Zebu. Read the rest of this entry »
Shorthorn
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The Shorthorn Breed of Cattle originated on the northeastern coast of England in the counties of Northcumberland, Durham, York, and Lincoln. These counties all touch the North Sea and lie between the Cheviot Hills and the middle part of England. The first real development of the Shorthorn breed Read the rest of this entry »