Common Agriculture Animal Breeds DAIRY BREEDS Ayrshire Red

Common Agriculture Animal Breeds

DAIRY BREEDS

Ayrshire Red and white Distinct Spots Medium-sized cattle Strong, rugged cattle Don’t have a lot of leg and foot problems • Calves are strong and easy to raise • Moderate butter fat • • • Orginated in the county of Ayr in Scotland

Brown Swiss • Originated in Switzerland • • • Gray-brown in color Good feet and legs Do well in all conditions Best milk for cheese Oldest Dairy breed

Holstein (Holstein-Friesian) • Originated in the northern provinces of North Holland Friesland in the Netherlands • White and Black OR • White and Red • Tall • Best milk production

Jersey • Originated on the Island of Jersey in England • Very light gray to mouse color to very dark fawn • Darker color on head and hips • Small to medium body type • Excellent grazers • More tolerant of heat

Milking Shorthorns • Originated in Northeastern England • Brought to US in 1783 • Red, red and white, white or roan • Versatile breed • Ease of calving

Guernsey • Originated from the Isle of Guernsey • Known for high quality (high fat and protein content) milk while consuming less feed • Intermediate frame

Beef Breeds

Angus Scotland

Charolais France

Limousin France

Hereford England

Shorthorn England

Swine Breeds

Yorkshire • White • Large, erect ears • Known as “The Mother Breed” • Produces large litters • Bacon-type hog • Originated in England

Hampshire • Black with a white belt • Probably the oldest American breed • Small, erect ears • Well-known meat breed • Originated in the United States

Duroc Solid red Drooped ears Slight dish to the face Excellent meat type hog • Originated in the United States • •

Landrace • White • Drooped ears • Known for their maternal instincts • Long • Flatter-topped than other breeds • Originated in Denmark

Spots • Black and white spots • Efficient feeders • Noted for rapid weight gain • Developed in Indiana

Chester White • White with drooped ears • Mothering breed • Known to produce large litters • Originated in Chester County, PA

Sheep Breeds

Cheviot �White, wool free faces �Resistant to cold, windy conditions �Long wool type �Wool has a helical crimp �Tend to be resistant to worms and footrot �Originated in Scotland

Montadale • White faced • Medium to large bodied • Dual Purpose breed • Hardy • Easy lambing • A cross between Cheviot and Columbia • Orginated in the US

Lincoln • White faces • The largest breed of sheep • Long-wooled breed • Pronounced forelock between the ears • Originated in England

Dorset �Medium-sized breed with high quality, white wool �Most popular whitefaced breed in the US �Horned and polled varieties exist �Originated in Europe

Rambouillet • • • White in color Long, dense, fine wool Good rate of gain Good maternal traits Originated in Spain Shipped to France in 1786 as a gift from the King of Spain to King Louis XVI in France

Suffolk • White with black faces and legs • Most popular breed in the US today • Produce large amounts of meat • Originated in England

Horse Breeds

American Quarter Horse • Developed in the United States as a race horse • Named for their fast times in the 1/4 mile • Known for speed, strength & intelligence • Most popular horse breed in the world

Paint • Hardy, mid sized horse • Popular with the Native Americans Colors include bay, black, brown, dun, chestnut, buckskin, palomino, sorrel, grey or roan. They have to have a certain % of white on them to be registered. • Origin traces back to Hernando Cortes who brought a mixed color stallion to the new world

Appaloosa • Well known for speed • Used by the Nez Pence Indians as war horses • Originated from Spanish horses left behind by explorers 5 coat patterns: Leopard (lg black spots covering body), Snowflake (dark color w/ lgt spots), Marble (lgt colored w/ dark spots), Frost (dark with sm lgt spots) or Blanket (whit e over rump)

Arabian • Originated from Bedouin desert • Known for strength and stamina • Small muzzle • High tail setting • Short back

Palomino • Gray, black, or brown with white mane and tail. • Multi-purpose horse • Versatile, high endurance horse • Origin unknown

Tennessee Walking Horse • Originated in Tennessee • Possess a unique running walk gait • Very easy to ride • Preferred horse of traveling preachers

Welsh Pony • Color: gray, black, bay, roan, cream or chestnut • Less than 15 hands high • Rugged breed • Wales

Percheron • At least 16 hands high • Gray, black or chestnut • Draft horse • France

Chicken Breeds

Leghorn Weight: 4 lbs. to 6 lbs. Egg Shell Color: White. Use: An egg-type chicken. Origin: city of Leghorn, Italy. Characteristics: A small, noisy bird, like to move about. Single comb • The most numerous breed. • • •

White Cornish • • • Weight: Heavy 8+ lbs Egg Shell Color: Light Brown Use: Meat Origin: Cornwall, England Characteristics: White or red, pea comb

Bantams • Weight: 1/5 to ¼ size of standard breeds • Egg Shell Color: Light Brown • Use: Meat • Origin: Bantam, Indonesia • Characteristics: White or red, pea comb

Rhode Island Red • Varieties: Single Comb, and Rose Comb • Standard Weights: 5 ½ lbs to 8 ½ lbs. • Egg Shell Color: Brown • Use: Egg production. • Origin: Massachusetts and Rhode Island. • Characteristics: – Relatively hardy. – The best egg layers of the dual purpose breeds. – Reds handle marginal diets and poor housing conditions.

Cat Breeds

One-on-one cat, even within a family talkative, loyal, fearless, very unpredictable medium size, very long, refined very little pigmentation; mask, ear, foot and tail tips Always has blue eyes Sensitive to vaccinations and anesthetics

Maine Coon • Native of U. S. • Longhaired • White/brown tabby or brown tabby coloring • Sociable

Oldest and most popular breed well-mannered, easygoing, quiet, excellent apartment cats divided into 6 groups for showing purposes, depending on eye and coat color Some white are born deaf if blue eyed or odd eyed (one blue/one green) Require daily grooming, often experience breathing problems and clogged tear ducts