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The Aberdeen Angus, sometimes simply Angus, is a Scottish breed of small beef cattle. It derives from cattle native to the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, Kincardine and Angus in north-eastern Scotland. [4]: 96 In 2018 the breed accounted for over 17% of the beef production in the United Kingdom. [5]
Bull at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Speckle Park is a modern Canadian breed of beef cattle.It was developed in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan from 1959, by cross-breeding stock of the British Aberdeen Angus and Shorthorn breeds; the spotted or speckled pattern for which it is named derived from a single bull with the colour-pointed markings of the British ...
Born at Tillyfour Farm near Alford in Aberdeenshire, the home of his father, Charles McCombie, a farming cattle dealer with Highland roots. [3] He was the cousin of William McCombie of Cairnballoch (1809-1870), the founder editor of the radical Aberdeen Free Press. [4]
In that year a breed association, the American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Association, was established with 60 members in Chicago, Illinois; the name was shortened to American Angus Association in the 1950s. [2]: 105 [6] Until 1917 both black and red cattle could be registered in the herdbook of the association.
It is also the home of the Aberdeen Angus cattle breed, which is celebrated by a life-sized model of a bull on the edge of the village, which the Queen Mother inaugurated in 2001. [6] It is believed [by whom?] that the original breeding ground of the cattle was Buffal, located between Tough (Tulloch) and Craigievar nearby Alford.
In cattle, Angus may refer to: Aberdeen Angus, a breed of beef cattle in Scotland and the United Kingdom; American Angus; German Angus; Red Angus; See also.
The Kershaw herd of registered Aberdeen Angus cattle won more championships than any other breeder in America. The herd had won 266 grand championships, 685 first-place rankings, 376-second-place, 186 third-place, 79 fourth-place and 53 fifth-place rankings, within a period of six years, bringing to the owner innumerable cups and silver trophies.
The Lim-Flex certification mark has been adopted in Australia and New Zealand, where "commercial Lim-Flex must be 25 to 75 percent Limousin and 25 to 75 percent Angus or Red Angus", [88] and in Canada, where they "must be 37.5 to 75 percent Limousin and 25 to 62.5 percent Angus or Red Angus, with a maximum allowance of another breed or unknown ...