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Beef Cattle Breeds Flashcards

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  • 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
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Aberdeen Angus

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What is the coat color of Aberdeen Angus?

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Black (white is not permitted)

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

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What is Red angus’s coat color?

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Reddish-brown

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  • 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”
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Brahman

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

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Coat color of Charolais?

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White or creamy white

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  • 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
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Charolais

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Are Charolais naturally horned or naturally polled?

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Naturally horned

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

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Charolais

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

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Devon (Ruby reds)

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12
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Size of Charolais?

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Large

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13
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Size of Devon cattles?

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Adequate size and scale

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  • 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
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Devon (Ruby reds)

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Also known as “Beef breed supreme at grass”

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Devon (ruby reds)

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

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The smallest beef cattle breed.

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Galloway

18
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  • they are good hustlers
  • Able to stand cold weathers
  • are polled
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Galloway

19
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  • Rich red body, white face, crest, dewlap, underline
  • a White faced cattle
  • muscular body type
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Herefords

20
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  • 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
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Herefords

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

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

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

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Scottish Highland

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

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  • 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
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Limousin

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Also known as the butcher animal in France

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Limousin

27
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  • Like Herefords, has light red or cream color coats
  • has white spots or white band over the shoulders
  • has pigment around the eyes
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Simmental

28
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  • 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
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Simmental

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  • 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
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Chianina

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The largest cattle in the world

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Chianina

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

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  • 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
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Gelbvieh

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

34
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  • 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
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Murray Grey

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  • 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
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Murray Grey

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

37
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  • 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
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Salers

38
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Coat is deep cherry red

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Santa Gertudis

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  • 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
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Santa Gertudis

ANIMAL PRODUCTION (35 decks)

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