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    The Field Guide to Cattle

    The Field Guide to Cattle

    by Valerie Porter, Lynn Stone


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      ISBN-13: 9781616739522
    • Publisher: Voyageur Press
    • Publication date: 02/15/2008
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • File size: 33 MB
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    Valerie Porter is the editor of Mason\u2019s World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds and the author of various books on cows, chickens, pigs, goats, and sheep. She lives in Milland, West Sussex, in the United Kingdom.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction     8
    The Cattle World     12
    Looking at Cows     22
    On Being a Cow     28
    On Being a Calf     34
    The Generous Cow     38
    Glossary     42
    Introduction to the Breed Profiles     46
    Breed Profiles     52
    Africander     52
    African Cattle     53
    Angus     54
    Ankole-Watusi     55
    Aubrac     56
    Ayrshire     56
    Barzona     58
    Beefalo     58
    Beefmaster     59
    Belgian Blue     60
    Blonde d'Aquitaine     61
    Braford     62
    Brahman     63
    Brangus     66
    Brown Swiss     66
    BueLingo     68
    Buffalo and Bison     69
    Canadienne     71
    Canadian Hybrids     72
    Charolais     73
    Chianina     75
    Criollo Cattle     76
    Devon     78
    Dexter     79
    Dutch Belted     81
    European Imports     82
    Florida Cracker and Pineywoods     83
    Galloway     85
    Gelbvieh     88
    Guernsey     89
    Hawaiian Wild     90
    Hereford     91
    Herens     92
    Highland     92
    Hinterwald     94
    Holstein     95
    Jamaican Breeds     97
    Jersey     98
    Kerry     99
    Limousin     100
    Lineback     100
    Maine-Anjou     102
    Marchigiana     102
    Mashona     103
    Meuse-Rhine-Yssel     104
    Miniature Cattle     105
    Murray Grey     106
    New American Breeds     107
    Normandy     108
    Parthenais     108
    Piedmontese     109
    Pinzgauer     110
    Randall Blue Lineback     111
    Red Dane     112
    Red Poll     113
    Romagnola     114
    Romosinuano     115
    Salers     116
    Santa Gertrudis     117
    Senepol     118
    Shorthorn     119
    Simmental     122
    South Devon     123
    Sussex      124
    Texas Longhorn     125
    Tuli     128
    Wagyu     129
    Welsh Black     130
    White Park     131
    Yak     134
    Appendix     136
    Resources     136
    Breed Associations     136
    Bibliography     140
    Index     142
    About the Author and Photographer     144

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    The first full-color, illustrated pocket guide to North American cattle, this handy book profiles more than 60 breeds of beef, dairy, and draft cattle. Whether you are farming 50 head of cattle or raising one cow--or simply want to learn about where your milk and meat come from--this invaluable resource will tell you everything you need to know.

    The field guide offers a wealth of information, from practical tips for communicating with bulls and reading a cows body language to the history and science behind crossbreeding and herd instincts. Mooing, milking, and calving; horns, bovine digestion, and the difference between dairy wedge, beef block, and draft shoulders--these topics and many more are covered in depth for breeds as familiar as Holstein, Hereford, Angus, and Jersey and as rare as Florida Cracker and Randall Lineback.

    With its interesting facts, 150 color photographs, glossary, breed classification table, and resource list, The Field Guide to Cattle is the essential guidebook to North Americas cattle breeds.

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