Brangus
The Brangus is an American hybrid breed of beef cattle derived from cross-breeding of American Angus and Brahman stock.[1][2][3] Registered animals have 5/8 Angus and 3/8 Brahman parentage.[4]: 149 A similar hybrid breed, the Australian Brangus, was separately developed in Australia from about 1950.[5]: 138
History
The effort to develop the Brangus breed had begun by 1932, and the first organization of Brangus breeders was chartered in 1949.
See also
References
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- ^ Breed data sheet: Brangus / United States of America (Cattle). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed October 2021.
- ^ Hilton Marshall Briggs, Dinus M. Briggs (1980). Modern Breeds of Livestock, fourth edition. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 9780023147302.
- ^ 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. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
- ^ John B. Friend (1978). Cattle of the World. Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press. ISBN 0713708565.
- ^ 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. ISBN 9781780647944.
Further reading
- Briggs, H.M. & D.M. Briggs. Modern Breeds of Livestock. Fourth Edition. Macmillan Publishing Co. 1980
- International Brangus Breeders Association, San Antonio, TX.
External links
- Brangus Breed Information - Oklahoma State University
- International Brangus Breeders Association