- Beef Cattle Breeds Information
Information and resourses related to some of the more popular registered Beef Cattle Breeds.
- Beefmaster
The Beefmaster Breed of Beef Cattle was originally created in Texas by the Lasater family that operated a Ranch bearing their surname. This line of cattle was the first American breed that utilized 3 distinctively different bovine species.
- Black Angus
Black Angus Beef Cattle are a solid black, polled breed of cattle initially dubbed Aberdeen Angus.
- Black Hereford
The American Black Hereford Association is one of the major promoters of this exceptional beef cattle breed. A Black Hereford is an offspring resulting from the pairing of a Holstein-Friesian cow and a Hereford bull.
- Black Limousin
The Black Limousin Cattle Today put into place the best genetic traits of the Limousin cattle with other animals that had many of these same features.
- Black Simmental
The Black Simmental is one of the more dominant colors found among the American Simmental cattle breed. The Black Simmental is separate from other Simmentals only because of its color.
- Brahman
The Brahman beef cattle breed has a long and productive life and they live almost 50% longer than any of the British or other European cattle breeds.
- British White
British White Beef Cattle Information and Resources. The British White is a naturally polled English breed of cattle, white in color with black points.
- Charolais
Charolais Beef Cattle Information and Resources. The Charolais is a large heavily muscled white breed of cattle originating from France.
- Hereford
Hereford Beef Cattle Information and Resources. The Hereford breed was founded some two and one-half centuries ago as a product of necessity.
- Limousin
Limousin Beef Cattle Information and Resources. Records for the Limousin breed of beef cattle in the USA are maintained by the North American Limousin Foundation.
- Longhorn
Texas Longhorn are beef cattle from the Western United States characterized, among other things, by extremely long horns.
- Murray Grey
Murray Grey Beef Cattle Information and Resources.
The Murray Grey originated in southern New South Wales, Australia. The preferred color is silver-gray.
- Red Angus
Red Angus Beef Cattle Information and Resources. In America the Red Angus beef cattle are registered and recorded in a herd book by the Red Angus Association of America.
- Santa Gertrudis
Today, there are 280 Santa Gertrudis herds listed in the official herdbook. The original King Ranch cattle are listed as The Foundation Herd for this breed. There are some other cattle herds that have been granted the designation of being a Foundation herd.
- Shorthorn
An Introduction to the Shorthorn Breed of Cattle . The farmers and landowners that originally began the work of breeding the Shorthorn, or Teeswater, animals created a foundation that could be expanded.
