British White

---- |----- |----- | colspan=2 align=" center" | |----- |----- ! bgcolor=" pink" colspan=" 2" | Name binominal Boss taurus
or Boss primigenius taurus,
or Boss primigenius F. taurus
Linnaeus, 1758 |----- |----- | Origin | The United Kingdom, England |----- | Diffusion | Regional |----- | Size | Average |----- | Dress | Linked white |----- | Use | Bouchère |----- |} The British white is a bovine race British.

Origin

It is resulting from the British white cattle very old. One finds his trace as of the 16th century with Whalley abbey in the Lancashire. It was useful has several families to maintain the park their manor during the centuries. Their color was probably an element in the choice for its beauty. At the 19th century, the black and red colors cohabited, according to the selection operated by each Lord. In the same way, the use of bulls of other races was made punctually to control consanguinity. They are English races like the devon or the galloway.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the stockbreeders took habit to exchange reproducers to limit the Consanguinité. This practice had the double advantage of ceasing the crossings and of homogenizing the morphology of the race. Their work leads to the creation of the genealogical Livre in 1918. It gathered seven herds representing 115 cows and 16 bulls. In 1973, the creation of the association of safeguarding of the rare races (RBST=Rare Breed Survival Trust) made it possible to start again the threatened races. In 1997, manpower is stable with 94 registered bulls (8 in Artificial insemination) and 1250 cows.
Elle was exported in Australia and with the the United States. The seed of its bulls was used in many regions for its aptitude to transmit bouchères qualities and the character without horns. The old arrival in America is not dated, but 5 cows and 1 bull were sent to the United States in 1940 on order of Churchill to safeguard the race vis-a-vis the danger of with the war.

Morphology

It wears a white dress and black mucous membranes. The ends are also black: boor, ears, turn of the eyes, shoes. It does not carry horns.
C' is a race of intermediate size (128-140 cm) but heavy: 500-700 kg for the cows and 800-1000 kg for the bulls.

Aptitudes

It is a race bouchère. It gives a tender and tasty meat. Until the years according to war, it also gave between 5000 and 6000 kg of milk rich in fat contents.
the cow vèle easily without assistance and raises its calf well. Its rusticity allows a breeding in the open air almost all the year. It tolerates temperatures between -40°C and 40°C. It is moreover one race without horn and flexible, therefore the risks with handling are limités.
En crossing on dairy race, the bulls confer on their descent a clear color. Thus, the dairy stockbreeders prove with their purchaser that the calf with a potential meat, as of eight days, before it is expressed fully.

Notes and references of the article

See too

Bovine. bovine Breeding
List of the bovine races. bovine Breeding in Great Britain
White park. Chillingham

External bonds and documents

External bonds

Card of the race British white.
Card of the race British white.
Site of British white cattle society.

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