cattle breeding
Raising beef herds
Cattle breeding is the practice of mating cattle to produce offspring with desired traits—meat quality, milk production, disease resistance, or temperament.
Breeding may be natural or through artificial insemination.
Selective breeding over generations has produced distinct breeds like Angus, Holstein, and Hereford, each optimized for particular purposes.
- artificial inseminationMedical sperm introduction procedure
- embryo transferPlacing fertilized egg inside
- crossbreedingMating unlike organisms
- hybrid vigorEnhanced traits from crossbreeding
- purebredOf single breed ancestry
feed · progeny testing · artificial selection · gene pool · phenotype · heritability · cow · cryopreservation · vaccination schedules · milk · cloning · hide · heifer · calves · herd · dairy herd · corral · semen
- livestock sciencelivestock feed, dairy farming, sheep farming, goat farming, poultry production
- cattle ranchingbranding iron, branding irons, herd, herds, ranchers
- livestockcow, cows, bull, bulls, pig
- breedingbreeder, crossbreeding, mating, outbreeding, hybridization
- livestock tradepoultry market, horse trade, livestock auctions, livestock auction, stockyard
- selective breedingartificial selection, crossbreeding, inbreeding, linebreeding, hybridization
agricultural activity type
cattle breedingcrop farming
Growing plants for harvest
plant cultivation · grain production · horticulture · vegetable farming · fruit growing