Beef Cattle Breeds

Question 1

• Color Coat of Black (White not permitted)
• Most popular breed in the US
• Naturally Polled
• Is used in crossbreeding for milking ability and carcass quality
• Medium size

Answer 1

Aberdeen Angus

Question 2

What is the coat color of Aberdeen Angus?

Answer 2

Black (white is not permitted)

Question 3

• Has a color coat of reddish-brown
• Naturally polled

Answer 3

Red Angus

Question 4

What is Red angus’s coat color?

Answer 4

Reddish-brown

Question 5

• is usually gray, sometimes red
• Intermediate size
• Has a large hump over the top of shoulder and neck
• Spinal processes below the hump extended
• Ears large and pendulous (hanging down)
• They “grunt” instead of “moo”

Answer 5

Brahman

Question 6

• Can graze over poor quality forage
• resistant to eye cancer and pink eye
• Can stand heat well

Answer 6

Brahman

Question 7

Coat color of Charolais?

Answer 7

White or creamy white

Question 8

• Coat is shortened in summer, and thickens in winter
• Perform well in different weather conditions
• Can walk and graze aggressively in warm weather
• Withstand reasonable cold
• Raise heavy calves
• Naturally horned

Answer 8

Charolais

Question 9

Are Charolais naturally horned or naturally polled?

Answer 9

Naturally horned

Question 10

A breed that is polled emerged as an important part of breed.

Answer 10

Charolais

Question 11

-Coat color: rich deep red or light red or chestnut
- Also known as red rubies
- Hair medium Thickness

Answer 11

Devon (Ruby reds)

Question 12

Size of Charolais?

Answer 12

Large

Question 13

Size of Devon cattles?

Answer 13

Adequate size and scale

Question 14

• is naturally horned, but polling is introduced
• Fertile
• Calving Ease
• Docile
• Hardness
• scrotum of bulls are well-developed heat-regulating system
• Ability to adapt extreme temperature

Answer 14

Devon (Ruby reds)

Question 15

Also known as “Beef breed supreme at grass”

Answer 15

Devon (ruby reds)

Question 16

• Mainly black with brownish tinge
• Has long hair coat
• dual purpose coat
• soft fur-like undercoat for insulation and water proofing

Answer 16

Galloway

Question 17

The smallest beef cattle breed.

Answer 17

Galloway

Question 18

• they are good hustlers
• Able to stand cold weathers
• are polled

Answer 18

Galloway

Question 19

• Rich red body, white face, crest, dewlap, underline
• a White faced cattle
• muscular body type

Answer 19

Herefords

Question 20

• well developed in regions of valuable cuts - back, loin, hind, quarters, or round
• Have short thickened horns that curved down at side of heads
• known for their vigor and foraging ability
• Polled strain in North America and UK

Answer 20

Herefords

Question 21

• has a color coat of red, white, and roan (codominance of red and white)
• are large, rectangle, and well-muscled

Answer 21

Shorthorn

Question 22

• Developed by a cross from naturally polled shorthorns in the breed

Answer 22

Shorthorn

Question 23

Coat color is black, brindle (tiger like color stripes), light red, red, dun, silver and yellow

Answer 23

Scottish Highland

Question 24

• Double coat
• Soft, and thick undercoat
• Small but exceedingly hardy
• Grandest head that covers the eyes
• Long horns that darkens in the tip

Answer 24

Scottish Highland

Question 25

- Rich red-gold color on the back - Long bodied and heavy muscled - Known as butcher animal in France - Reputation as meat animal was firmly established

Answer 25

Limousin

Question 26

Also known as the butcher animal in France

Answer 26

Limousin

Question 27

- Like Herefords, has light red or cream color coats - has white spots or white band over the shoulders - has pigment around the eyes

Answer 27

Simmental

Question 28

- Large frame body - popular for beef crossbreeding because of size, muscling, docile disposition and milk production. - can be horned or polled - heavy dewlap - draught animals

Answer 28

Simmental

Question 29

- Coat is white with a black switch on a tail - The largest cattle in the world - has rapid growth - well-marbled and fine-textured meat - legs longer that most breed

Answer 29

Chianina

Question 30

The largest cattle in the world

Answer 30

Chianina

Question 31

- Coat is red with a strong skin - has fine hair that is ideal in temperate conditions

Answer 31

Gelbvieh

Question 32

- Originally horned, now majority are polled - Polled called developed in the US from naturally hornless cows - superior fertility, calving ease, mother ability, and growth rate of calves

Answer 32

Gelbvieh

Question 33

- Coat is red with white spots - Dark red with white spots - One of the largest breed developed in France - Heavy muscled

Answer 33

Maine-Anjou

Question 34

- Coat is dark grey to light silver - Grey reflects more heat compared to darker colors - Calves at small birth - Cows are good mother and milks well

Answer 34

Murray Grey

Question 35

- Calves has good rate of growth - Docile in both herd and feedlot - naturally polled - relatively small heads and bones - Survival and reproductive rate satisfactory under a wide range of climactic and management conditions

Answer 35

Murray Grey

Question 36

- Typically horned with dark mahogany coat - Coat are thick and curly on winter

Answer 36

Salers

Question 37

- Short legs and good feet with black hooves - Calving ease, maternal efficiency, carcass merit - Has the largest, well-shaped pelvic area among the major beef cattle breeds -> exceptional calving ease and shorter gestation period

Answer 37

Salers

Question 38

Coat is deep cherry red

Answer 38

Santa Gertudis

Question 39

- Breed was developed in Texas, USA - Cross breed of Brahman beef and and shorthorns beef - High degree of tick and heat resistance - Easy of calving, good mothering ability, abundant milk supply - little evidence of hump

Answer 39

Santa Gertudis