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Crossbreeding through the use of Limousin terminal sires in purebred British breed cow herds allows the complementary traits of higher marbling and fat cover provided by the British breed cows, and required or preferred by some markets, [74] [75] to be combined with the higher yield and feed conversion efficiency of Limousin sires.
The Normande is a large-bodied animal: cows usually weigh 700–800 kg, and bulls up to 1100 kg. The coat is usually red-pied or speckled, but may also be black-pied or blonde. The head is often white, and the surround of the eyes is commonly dark, giving a "spectacled" appearance. The skin is white and muzzle is dark. [3]
The Blonde d'Aquitaine is the third beef breed of France by numbers, after the Charolais and the Limousin. In 2013 there were about 560 000 head in more than 18 000 farms. [ 5 ] : 132 The Blonde d'Aquitaine has been exported to many countries of the world, including all countries of the European Union .
A cow was a great advantage to a villager as she produced more milk than her calf needed, and her strength could be put to use as a working animal, pulling a plough to increase production of crops, and drawing a sledge, and later a cart, to bring the produce home from the field. Draught animals were first used about 4,000 BC in the Middle East ...
This is a list of the cattle breeds considered in France to be wholly or partly of French origin. Some may have complex or obscure histories, so inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively French.
The Lakenvelder is finely built and of small to medium size, with a withers height in the range 126–136 cm for cows and averaging 133 cm [4]: 225 or 137 cm for bulls. [3]: 97 Body weights are variously reported as 500 kg [4]: 225 or 700 kg for bulls, [3]: 97 and 450 kg [4]: 224 or 550 kg for cows. [3]: 97
Montbéliarde cattle are mainly a dairy breed, but have better beef characteristics than Holstein cattle.France has nearly 400,000 recorded Montbéliarde dairy cows, with an average adult annual lactation of 7,486 litres (1,978 US gallons) at 3.9% butterfat and 3.45% protein. [4]
Luing cattle (pronounced ling cattle) are a beef breed developed on the island of Luing in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland [1] by the Cadzow brothers in 1947. It was formed by first crossbreeding Beef Shorthorn with Highland cattle and then breeding the resulting progeny with Beef Shorthorns to produce an animal three quarters Beef Shorthorn, one quarter Highland.