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Breed Identification Project
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Agriculture
9th Grade
01/04/2013

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Term
Swine: Hampshire
Definition

Black with a white belt on the front end of the hog that extends to the front of the leg.

Origin:England

Use: It was originally used for the famous Smithfield ham.

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Swine: Duroc
Definition

Origin: United States

The color range is from a very light golden, almost a yellow color, to a very dark red.

Use: Used for Pork Producers.


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Swine: Berkshire
Definition

Origin: England

features: The Berkshire's features are it's white snout and feet and the white tip of it's tail, with it's black body.

Use/Purpose: Pork, Ham, and Bacon Productions.

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Swine: Yorkshire
Definition

Origin: England.

Features: Erect Ears, White all Over.

Use/Purpose: Pork Productions, Breeding.

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Term
Swine:Landrace
Definition

Origin: Denmark

Features: White, Big Ears, Small Tail.

Use/Purpose: Milk, Breeding.

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Term
Swine: Spots
Definition

Origin: Poland China

Features: Black and gray starting from the top of the hog to the midsection of it's body, and pink on the midsection the the bottom half of it's body.

Use/Purpose: Offspring, used for Pork productions.

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Swine: Chester White
Definition

Origin: United States, Pennsylvania

Features: White all Over.

Use/Purpose: Breeding.

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Term
Horse: Quarter Horse
Definition

Origin: United States.

Features: A Range from a Golden White color, to a light Brown color, to a dark brown.

Use/Purpose: Rodeo's

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Term
Horse: Thoroughbred
Definition

Origin: Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerly Turk.

Features:A range to a Light Brown, Dark Brown, and Black color.

Use/Purpose: Racing.  

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Horse:Arabian
Definition

Origin: Arabian Peninsula.

Features: Grey, Chestnut, and occasionally Black.

Use/Purpose: Stock.

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Term
Horse: Clydesdale
Definition

Origin: Scotland.

Features: A range from a chocolate Brown, to a Black color. The most distinctive characteristic about these horses are they have white going down their faces and legs.

Use/Purpose: Bred for Work.

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Horse: Percheron
Definition

Origin: Le Perche region of France

Features: Goes from White, to Black and White spots, to a Chocolate color, to a completely Black color. Usually they have a really long tail or a really short tail.  

Use/Purpose: Draft horse used for recreation such as hayrides, sleighrides and parades.

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Term
Horse: Paint
Definition

Origin: North America, descendants of this horse is from North Africa and Asia Minor.

Features: Almost as if someone splashed different colored paint all over this horse.

Use/Purpose: APHA's likes to promote the history, breeding, training, showing, racing, sales and enjoyment this horse. [image]

Term
Dairy Cattle: Holstein
Definition

Origin: Europe.

Features: Big, Black and White patches all over.

Use/Purpose:Milk production.

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Dairy Cattle: Ayrshire
Definition

Origin: Scotland.

Features:Big, All White but has some Brown spots on it's body.

Use/Purpose: Dairy Industry.

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Term
Dairy Cattle: Jersey
Definition

Origin: France.

Features:A light Milk Chocolate color.

Use/Purpose: Dairy production.

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Dairy Cattle: Guernsey
Definition

Origin: France.

Features:All brown with a white patch below the neck.

Use/Purpose: High Butter-fat, High-protein milk.


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Term
Dairy Cattle: Brown Swiss
Definition

Origin: Switzerland

Features: Gray all over. About two inches starting from the bottom of the mouth is white going around the mouth.

Use/Purpose: Cheese production.

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Term
Dairy Cattle: Milking Shorthorn
Definition

Origin: Northeastern England. 

Features:Looks like it has a sheep face, big, Brown on head and neck, white body, dark brown spots on legs.

Use/Purpose: Milk, and Meat production.

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Term
Beef Cattle: Angus
Definition

Origin: Northern Scotland.

Features: Big, Completely Black.

Use/Purpose: Used to make feed in the winter.

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Term

Beef Cattle: Polled Hereford.

 

Definition

Origin:England

Feature: Big, Brown and White, Has a Long Tail.

Use/Purpose:Beef

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Term
Beef Cattle: Limousin
Definition

Origin: France

Feature: Any size from small to large, Brown to a Black color.

Use/Purpose: fattened to slaughter.

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Term
Beef Cattle: Simmental
Definition

Origin: Western Switzerland

Feature: Large animal, Brown and White splotches all over.

Use/Purpose: Milk, Butter, and Cheese.

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Term
Beef Cattle: Charolais
Definition

Origin: Southeastern France.

Feature: White or a Creamy White.

Use/Purpose: Beef
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Term
Beef Cattle: Brahman
Definition

Origin: India.

Feature:Large lump over the top of Shoulder and Neck, Grayish-White, Horns, and have big ears that droop down by their eyes. 

Use/Purpose: Milk.

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Term
Beef Cattle: Shorthorn.
Definition

Origin: England.

Features: Large, Brown, Curved back. 

Use/Purpose: Slaughtering.

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Term
Beef Cattle: Maine Anjou
Definition

Origin: France

Features: Black head, Brown body, and White legs. Large animal.

Use/ Purpose: Milking.

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Term
Sheep: Hampshire
Definition

Origin: England

Feature:Black head and legs, White body.

Use/Purpose: Wool

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Term
Sheep: Suffolk
Definition

Origin: England

Feature: Ears are usally pointed horizontal, or down. White body, Black head and legs.

Use/Purpose: Wool.

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Term
Sheep: Dorset
Definition

Origin: United States

Feature: They can have horns, White, A range from Small in size to very large in size.

Use/Purpose: Breeding, Milk

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Term
Sheep: Cheviot
Definition

Origin: The border of England and Scotland.

Feature: Brown body, White head, and a black nose and eyes.

Use/Purpose: Wool.

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Term
Sheep: Rambouillet
Definition

Origin: Spain

Feature: White-Brown color, Horns, Big, Have a lot of wool.

Use/Purpose: Milk, Wool and Meat production.

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Term
Poultry-duck: Cayuga
Definition

Origin: America

Features: mixtures of black, green, blue, feathers. White or gray colored beak.

Purpose: Bred for meat type.

Term
Poultry-Geese, Egyptian
Definition

Origin: South Handwriting

Features: Orange feet and beak, Black around eyes, white, brown and Black feathers.

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Term
Goat: Alpine
Definition

Origin: Alps

Features: White front quarters and black back quarters, black or gray markings on head, can have horns.

Purpose: Milk

Term
Goats: Tennessee Fainting
Definition

Origin: None

Features: Black head, white muzzle, black spots, white body, can have horns

purpose: milk

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