Miniature Zebu
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The Miniature Zebu is a modern American breed of zebuine miniature cattle. A breed association was established in 1991.[3]: 245 [4]
History
[edit]India has numerous traditional breeds of very small zebuine cattle, such as the Vechur breed of southern Kerala.[3]: 321 These may be collectively known as nadudana, "small cattle".[5]
The Miniature Zebu was established as a breed in the United States in 1991, when a herd-book was started by the International Miniature Zebu Association, a breed association.[3]: 245 At that time, there were small zebuine cattle in twenty-three American zoos, and others were held by some fifty private owners. The parent stock had originally been imported from Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Sweden. By 2016 more than 6200 animals were registered.[3]: 245
The Miniature Zebu is not reported by the United States Department of Agriculture to the DAD-IS database of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.[2] It was not included in the list of farm animal genetic resources published in 2007 by that organisation as an annex to its report on The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.[1]: 125
Characteristics
[edit]The maximum withers height permitted for registration by the association is 107 cm (42 in).[3]: 245
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b Breed data sheet: United States: Cattle. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g h 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.
- ^ Welcome to IMZA. International Miniature Zebu Association. Accessed June 2018.
- ^ Heather Smith Thomas (January/February 2010). Miniature Zebu cattle. Countryside & Small Stock Journal. 94 (1): 68–70. Accessed June 2018. (subscription required).