Red Angus
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| Conservation status | FAO 2007: not at risk[1]Template:R/superscript |
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| Use | beef |
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| Coat | red |
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The Red Angus is an international breed of beef cattle characterised by a reddish-brown coat colour. It derives from the Scottish Aberdeen Angus population and is identical to it in all but coat colour. Red Angus are registered separately from black Angus cattle in Australia, Canada, and the United States.[4]Template:R/superscript
History
The Scottish Aberdeen Angus is usually black, but red individuals occur; this may be the consequence of cross-breeding in the eighteenth century of the small Scottish cattle with larger English Longhorn stock, aimed at increasing their draught power.[5]Template:R/superscript
In the United States, these red individuals could until 1917 be registered in the herd-book of the American Angus Association. From about 1945, some herds consisting only of red-coated stock were formed.[6]Template:R/superscript In 1954 a breeders' association, the Red Angus Association of America, was established at a meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.[7]Template:R/superscript The registered population in 2008 numbered about 47000 head, making it the fifth beef breed by number in the United States; American Angus, Charolais, Hereford and Simmental were more numerous.[3]Template:R/superscript
In Australia, breeders of the red variant proposed a scheme for registration of their stock with the Angus Society of Australia; it was not accepted, and in 1970 they formed the Red Angus Society of Australia.[3]Template:R/superscript
The Red Angus is reported to DAD-IS by Australia, Cuba, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Slovenia and the United States; its global conservation status is "not at risk".[2]Template:R/superscript
Use
The Red Angus is a beef breed, and is reared only for that purpose.[4]Template:R/superscript Comparative trials have not identified any difference of commercial significance between it and the American Angus.[3]Template:R/superscript Bulls have been used as sires for cross-breeding. The Red Angus is a parent breed to the Regus (cross-breeding with Hereford) and to the RX3 (a mixture of Hereford, Red Angus and Red Holstein).[3]Template:R/superscript
References
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- ^ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to: The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Template:Isbn. Archived 23 June 2020.
- ^ a b Transboundary breed: Red Angus. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. Template:Isbn.
- ^ a b Marleen Felius (1995). Cattle Breeds: An Encyclopedia. Doetinchem, Netherlands: Misset. Template:Isbn.
- ^ The Origin of Red Angus. Red Angus Society of Australia. Accessed October 2018.
- ^ Frank Flanders, James R. Gillespie (2015). Modern Livestock & Poultry Production. Boston, Massachusetts: Cengage Learning. Template:Isbn.
- ^ Bob Hough (2005). History of the Red Angus. Denton, Texas: Red Angus Association of America.
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