Breed Names - Cattle Groups - COUNTRIES/AREAS OF ORIGIN

Dabieshan 大别山牛 - bull - China
Dacca-Faridpur (extinct) - Bangladesh
Dagana (var. Gobra) - Mauritania/Senegal
Dagestan Brown (syn. Dagestanskaya Buraya, extinct) - Russia
Dagestan Mountain - Russia
Dagestanskaya Buraya (syn. Dagestan Brown, extinct) - Russia
Dagri - India
Dahomey (syn. Lagune) - Benin/Côte d’Ivoire/Togo
Dahomey Miniature - Germany

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Dairy Criollo (group) - Latin America

Dairy Criollo cattle:
• Barroso - cow - Guatemala
• Blanco Orejinegro - bull (2) - Colombia
• Caldeano - cow - Brazil
• Costeño con Cuernos - bull - Colombia
• Cuban Criollo - cow - Cuba
• Saavedreño - bull - Bolivia
• Tropical Dairy Criollo - heifer - Costa Rica/Dominican Republic/Mexico/Nicaragua/Venezuela

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Dairy Gir (var. Brazilian Gir) - Brazil
Dairy Hungarian Brown (extinct) - Hungary
Dairy Hungarian Pied (extinct) - Hungary
Dairy Indo-European - Brazil
Dairy Maine Anjou (syn. Maine-Anjou) - France
Dairy Shorthorn - cow - United Kingdom
Dairy Shorthorn (Original Population) - United Kingdom
Dairy Swiss (syn. Brown Swiss) - Botswana
Dairy Synthetic - Canada
Dairy Zebu of Uberaba - heifer calf - Brazil
Dajal - Pakistan
Dajjal (syn. Dajal) - cow - Pakistan
Dales Shorthorn (syn. Northern Dairy Shorthorn) - England
Dali (var. Yunnan Zebu) - China
Dalmatinsko sivo govedo (syn. Dalmation Grey) - Croatia
Dalmation Grey - Croatia
Damara - Angola/Namibia
Damascene (syn. Damascus) - Syria
Damascus - cow - Syria

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Damascus-type breeds:
• Baladi - cow - Egypt/Israel/Jordan/Lebanon/Syria
• Cyprus - heifer - Cyprus
• Damascus - cow - Syria
• Damietta - heifer - Egypt
• Egyptian - heifer calf - Egypt
• Jenubi - cow - Iraq
• Khalit - cow (2) - Egypt
• Kilis - heifer calf - Turkey/Türkiye
• Lebanese - heifer - Lebanon/Syria
• Maryuti - bull - Egypt
• South Anatolian Red - cow - Turkey/Türkiye
• Tinos (extinct) - cow and calf - Greece

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Damerghou (syn. Azaouak) - Burkina Faso/Mali/Niger/Nigeria
Damietta (var. Egyptian) - heifer - Egypt
Danakil (syn. Afar) - cow - Djibouti/Eritrea/Ethiopia
Danara (not syn. Garre)
Dancalian (syn. Afar) - Djibouti/Eritrea/Ethiopia
Dangi - India
Dangjiao (extinct) - China
Danish Black Pied - cow - Denmark
Danish Black-and-White Milk (syn. Danish Black Pied) - Denmark
Danish Blue-and-White (syn. Belgian Blue) - Denmark
Danish Holstein (syn. Danish Black Pied) - Denmark
Danish Jersey - cow - Denmark
Danish Red - cow and calf - Denmark
Danish Red (old type) (syn. RDM-1970) - Denmark
Danish Red Holstein - Denmark
Danish Red Pied (syn. Dansk Rødbroget Kvæg) - cow - Denmark
Danish Red and White (syn. Dansk Rødbroget Kvæg) - Denmark
Danish Red-and-White Shorthorn (syn. Dansk Rødbroget Kvæg) - Denmark
Danish Shorthorn (syn. Korthorn) - Denmark
Dansk Blåhvidt kvæg (syn. Belgian Blue) - Denmark
Dansk blåkvæg - Denmark
Dansk Jersey - Denmark
Dansk Korthorn (syn. Danish Shorthorn) - Denmark
Dansk Rødbroget Kvæg - Denmark
Danube (former var. Austrian Simmental, extinct) - Austria
Danyang (syn. Shandong) - China
Daomé (syn. Dahomey) - Angola
Dar el Reih (syn. Butana) - Sudan
Darbalara (strain Australian Milking Shorthorn, extinct) - Australia
Dark Andalusian (re. Retinta) - Spain
Dashtiari - Iran
Dauara (syn. Garre)
Daura (not syn. Garre)
Dawara (syn. Garre) - Somalia
Dazzal (re. Dajjal) - Pakistan
De Combat (syn. Brave) - bull - France
De la Tierra (syn. Avileña-Black Iberian) - Spain
de la Tierra (syn. Canary Island) - Spain
de la Tierra (syn. Palmera) - Spain
De Lidia (re. Fighting bull) - France/Portugal/Spain
Deep Red (syn. Brandrood) - Netherlands
Dega (re. Abyssinian Shorthorned Zebu) - Ethiopia
Dehong (var. Yunnan Zebu) - China
Del Cubante (syn. Marchigiana) - Italy
Del País (syn. Alistana-Sanabresa) - Spain
Delami (syn. Nuba, extinct) - Sudan
Dembia - Ethiopia

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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC, DR Congo)
- cattle breeds
(cow, bull, heifer, heifer calf, bull calf, ox, steer):
• Afrikaander (syn. Africander, imported)
• Alur - cow - DR Congo
• Angolan (imported)
• Ankole - heifer, cow - Burundi/DR Congo/Rwanda/Tanzania/Uganda
• Bahima - cow - DR Congo/Uganda
• Bahu (syn. Lugware) - DR Congo/Uganda
• Bashi - DR Congo
• Beefmaster (imported)
• Bhagnari (imported)
• Bleu Blanc Belge (syn. Belgian Blue, imported)
• Blukwa (syn. Alur) - DR Congo
• Bonsmara (imported)
• Brahman (imported)
• Brun Suisse (syn. Brown Swiss, imported)
• Charolais (imported)
• Dahomey (syn. Lagune, imported)
• Dhanni (imported)
• Guernsey (imported)
• Hereford (imported)
• Jersey (imported)
• Kisantu - DR Congo
• Kivu - cow and bull - DR Congo
• Limousin (imported)
• Lugware - bull - DR Congo/Uganda
• Mateba - DR Congo
• N’Dama - cow - West Africa
• Nelore (imported)
• Nioka (syn. Alur) - DR Congo
• Pie Noire (syn. Holstein, imported)
• Red Sindhi (imported)
• Sahiwal (imported)
• Santa Gertrudis (imported)
• Shorthorn (imported)
• Simmental (imported)
• Tharparkar (imported)
• Watusi - cow - DR Congo/Rwanda/Tanzania

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Demonte (extinct) - Italy
Dengchuan 邓川牛 - cow - China

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DENMARK - cattle breeds
(cow, bull, heifer, heifer calf, bull calf, ox, steer):
• Aberdeen-Angus (imported)
• Agersø (syn. Agersøkvæg) - Denmark
• Agersøkvæg - Denmark
• Belgisk Blåhvidt Kvæg (syn. Belgian Blue, imported)
• Black Pied Jutland (syn. Sortbroget Jydsk Malkekvaeg, extinct) - Denmark
• Black Spotted Jutland Milk (syn. Sortbroget Jydsk Malkekvaeg, extinct) - Denmark
• Black-and-White Jutland (syn. Sortbroget Jydsk Malkekvaeg, extinct) - Denmark
• Blonde d’Aquitaine (imported)
• Brahman (imported)
• Charolais (imported)
• Danish Black Pied - cow - Denmark
• Danish Holstein (syn. SDM - Dansk Holstein) - Denmark
• Danish Jersey (syn. Dansk Jersey) - cow - Denmark
• Danish Red (syn. Rød Dansk Malkerace) - cow and calf - Denmark
• Danish Red Holstein - Denmark
• Danish Red Pied (syn. Dansk Rødbroget Kvæg) - cow - Denmark
• Danish Red and White (syn. Dansk Rødbroget Kvæg) - Denmark
• Danish Red-and-White Shorthorn (syn. Dansk Rødbroget Kvæg) - Denmark
• Danish Shorthorn (syn. Korthorn) - Denmark
• Dansk blåkvæg - Denmark
• Dansk Jersey - Denmark
• Dansk Rødbroget Kvæg - Denmark
• Dexter (imported)
• DRH (syn. Danish Red Holstein) - Denmark
• DRK (syn. Dansk Rødbroget Kvæg) - Denmark
• Faeroes cattle - heifer - Faroe Islands
• Finsk Ayrshire (syn. Finnish Ayrshire, imported)
• Fleckvieh (syn. Simmental, imported)
• Galloway (imported)
• Gelbvieh (imported)
• Grauvieh (syn. Tiroler Grauvieh, imported)
• Hereford (imported)
• Highland Cattle (imported)
• Hinterwälder (imported)
• Islandsk kvæg (imported)
• Jutland Black Pied (syn. Sortbroget Jydsk Malkekvaeg, extinct) - Denmark
• Jutland (syn. Jysk Kvæg) - Denmark
• Jutland Cattle (syn. Jysk Kvæg) - Denmark
• Jysk Kvæg - heifer calf - Denmark
• Korthorn - Denmark
• Limousine (imported)
• Murray Grey (imported)
• Norsk Rødt Fe (imported)
• Økvæg (syn. Agersøkvæg) - Denmark
• Piemontese (imported)
• Pinzgauer (imported)
• Rød Dansk Malkerace - Denmark
• Rød Dansk Malkerace anno 1970 (RDM-1970) - Denmark
• Salers (imported)
• Sayaguesa (imported)
• SDM - Dansk Holstein - cow - Denmark
• Simmental (imported)
• Skotsk Højlandskvæg (syn. Highland, imported)
• Sortbroget Dansk Malkerace anno 1965 (SDM-1965) (syn. Danish Black Pied) - Denmark
• Sortbroget Jydsk Malkekvaeg (extinct) - Denmark
• Sweizisk Brunkvæg (syn. Brown Swiss, imported)
• Texas Longhorn (imported)
• Ungarsk Steppekvæg (syn. Hungarian Grey, imported)
• Wagyu (imported)
• Watusi (imported)
• Welsh Black (imported)
• White Park Cattle (imported)
• Zebu (imported)

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Deogir - India
Deoni - bull - India
Derbyshire Blue (syn. Blue Albion) - heifer - England
Des Lagunes (syn. Manjaca) - Guinea-Bissau
Desan (syn. Gir) - India
deshi (= native)
Deshi (syn. Binjharpuri) - India
Deshi (syn. Ghumusari) - India
Deshi (syn. Khariar) - India
Deshi (syn. Motu) - India
desi (= local/indigenous) - India
Deutsch Angus (syn. German Angus) - Germany
Deutsche (= German)
Deutsche Holstein Rotbunt (syn. German Red Pied Holstein) - cow - Germany
Deutsche Rotbunte (syn. German Red Pied) - heifer - Germany
Deutsches Braunvieh (syn. German Brown) - cow - Germany
Deutsches Gelbvieh (syn. Gelbvieh) - China
Deutsche Holstein Schwarzbunt (syn. German Holstein) - Germany
Deutsches Fleckvieh (syn. German Simmental) - Germany
Deutsches Schwarzbuntes Niederungsvieh (syn. German Original Black Pied) - Germany
Deutsches Schwarzbuntes Rind (syn. East German Black Pied cattle) - Germany
Deutsches Shorthorn (syn. German Shorthorn) - Germany
Deutsches Simmental (syn. German Simmental) - Germany
Deutsches-Angus-Fleischrind (syn. German Angus) - Germany
Devani (var. Deoni) - India
Devarakota - India
Devni (var. Deoni) - India
Devon - cow - England
Dewsland (extinct) - Wales
Dexter - bull - Ireland
Dexter-Kerry (syn. Dexter) - Ireland
Dhaka-Faridpur (syn. Dacca-Faridpur, extinct) - Bangladesh

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Dhanni - Pakistan
Dhofari - Oman
Diakoré (not syn. Djakoré)
Diali (syn. Djelli) - Niger
Didinga (var. Mongalla) - Sudan
dimdzo (re. dzo) - Nepal
dimjo (re. dzo) - Nepal
dimschu (re. dzo) - Nepal
Dinamarquesa Vermelha (syn. Danish Red) - Brazil
Dinka (re. Nilotic Sanga) - Sudan
Diqing - China
Dirbani (syn. Hassawi) - Saudi Arabia
Dishley (obs. syn. Longhorn) - bull - England
Dishti (var. Iraqi) - Iraq
Dithmarscher (extinct) - Germany
Diyarbakir (extinct) - Turkey/Türkiye
Djafoun (syn. Red Bororo) - Cameroon
Djakoré - cow, bull - Senegal
Djakoré (syn. Bambara) - Burkina Faso/Côte d’Ivoire/Mali
Djali (syn. Djelli) - Niger
Djebeli (syn. Arab) - Israel
Djebeli (syn. Baladi) - Syria
Djebeli (syn. Jordan Baladi) - Jordan
Djebeli (syn. Lebanon Baladi) - Lebanon
Djelani (not syn. Jaulan)
Djeli (syn. Djelli) - Niger
Djelli - Niger/Nigeria
Djerba (var. Brown Atlas) - Algeria

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DJIBOUTI - cattle breeds
(cow, bull, heifer, heifer calf, bull calf, ox, steer):
• Afar - cow - Djibouti/Eritrea/Ethiopia
• Danakil - cow - Djibouti/Eritrea/Ethiopia
• F1-Generation - Djibouti
• Frisonne (syn. Holstein-Friesian, imported)
• Holstein (imported)
• Somali (imported)
• Zebu autochtone - Djibouti

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Djokore (not syn. Djakoré)
Djoloff (var. Gobra) - Mauritania/Senegal
Dnieper (var. Ukrainian Beef) - Ukraine
Dnieper RM-1 (syn. Dnieper) - Ukraine
Doai (not syn. Namchi)
Doayo (syn. Namchi) - Cameroon
Doba (syn. Kereyu; re. Abyssinian Shorthorned Zebu) - Ethiopia
Dobe (syn. Sheko) - Ethiopia
Dobrogea Red - Romania
Dobruja Red (syn. Dobrogea Red) - Romania
Doddadana (syn. Amritmahal) - India
Doğu Anadolu kırmızı (syn. East Anatolian Red) - Turkey/Türkiye
Dohin - Ethiopia/Sudan
Dølafe - heifer, heifer calf - Norway
Døle (syn. Dølafe) - Norway
dolinowa (= lowland) - Poland
Domaće šareno goveče (syn. Serbian Pied) - Serbia
domestic yak - ox - Altai, Himalayas, Mongolia, Tibetan plateau
Domesticated banteng (syn. Bali cattle) - Indonesia
Domiati (syn. Damietta) - Egypt
Domiatta (syn. Damietta) - Egypt
Domiatti (syn. Damietta) - Egypt

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DOMINICA - cattle breeds
(cow, bull, heifer, heifer calf, bull calf, ox, steer):
• Brahman (imported)
• Brangus (imported)
• Creole - cow - Barbados/Dominica/Guyana
• Holstein (imported)
• Jersey (imported)
• Puerto Rican - cow - Barbados/Cuba/Dominica/Puerto Rico/Tobago/Trinidad
• Red Poll (imported)

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Dominican Criollo - cow - Dominican Republic

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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - cattle breeds
(cow, bull, heifer, heifer calf, bull calf, ox, steer):
• Brahman (imported)
• Criollo Lechero Dominicano - heifer calves - Dominican Republic
• Criollo Lechero Tropicana (syn. Criollo Lechero Dominicano) - Dominican Republic
• Dominican (syn. Dominican Criollo) - Dominican Republic
• Dominican Criollo (var. Tropical Dairy Criollo) - cow - Dominican Republic
• Holstein (imported)
• Improved Criollo (syn. Criollo Lechero Dominicano) - Dominican Republic
• Jersey (imported)
• Milking Criollo (syn. Criollo Lechero Dominicano) - Dominican Republic
• Pardo Suizo (syn. Brown Swiss, imported)
• Puerto Rican (imported)
• Romana Red (syn. Romana Rojo) - bull - Dominican Republic
• Romana Rojo - Dominican Republic
• Simmental (imported)
• Tropical Dairy Criollo (syn. Criollo Lechero Dominicano) - Dominican Republic

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Domshino (syn. Yaroslavl) - Russia
Domshinskaya (syn. Yaroslavl) - Russia
Domyati (syn. Damietta) - Egypt
Doñana (syn. Marismeña) - Spain
Donau (syn. Danube, extinct) - Austria
Donayo (not syn. Namchi)
Dongari (syn. Deoni) - India
Dongarpati (re. Deoni) - India
Dongarpatti (syn. Deoni) - India
Donggala - Indonesia
Dongola - heifer - Sudan
Dongolé (syn. Kuri) - Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria
Donnersberg (re. Glan) - Germany
Donnersberger Rotvieh (syn. Donnersberg) - Germany
Doppelnutzung Rotbunt - cow - Germany
Doran - bull - Costa Rica
Dorna - cow - Romania
Dornod steppe beef (syn. Dornod talyn Hevshil) - Mongolia
Dornod Taliin Bukh - bull - Mongolia
Dornod talyn Hevshil - cow, bull - Mongolia
Dornor mongolyn ulaan - cow - Mongolia
Dörtyol (extinct) - Turkey/Türkiye
Doteli Gai (syn. Khaila) - Nepal
Double Muscled - Canada
Doumyatti (type Baladi) - Egypt
Dowayo (not syn. Namchi)
DP-BBB (re. Belgian Blue) - Belgium

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DR CONGO (Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC) - cattle breeds see DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

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Drakensberger - cow - South Africa
Draught Master (syn. Droughtmaster) - Botswana
Drenthe (extinct) - Netherlands
DRH (syn. Danish Red Holstein) - Denmark
dridzo (re. dzo) - Tibet
Drimmon (syn. Droimeann) - Ireland
DRK (syn. Danish Red Pied) - Denmark
Droimeann - cow - Ireland
Droimfhionn (syn. Droimeann) - Ireland
Drontheimer (not syn. Red Trondheim)
Droughtmaster - young bull - Australia
Dschau-bei (syn. Zaobei) - China
Dscholan (not syn. Jaulan)
Dual Purpose Blue (re. Belgian Blue) - Belgium
Dual Purpose Shorthorn (syn. Milking Shorthorn/Canada)
Duara (not syn. Garre)
Dulong 独龙牛 (syn. Mithun) - bull, young bull - China
Dumiati (syn. Damietta) - Egypt
Dumyati (syn. Damietta) - Egypt
Dun Galloway (var. Galloway) - Scotland
Dunlop (obs. syn. Ayrshire) - Scotland
Durham (re. Beef Shorthorn) - England
Durham Red (var. American Shorthorn) - USA
Durham-Manceaux-Normand (obs. syn. Saosnoise ) - France
Durham-Mancelle (obs. syn. Maine-Anjou) - France
Duruma - Kenya
Dutch (re. Friesian group)

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Dutch (group) - Netherlands

Dutch cattle:
• Black Pied Dutch Friesian (syn. Zwartbont Fries-Hollands) - Netherlands
• Dutch Black Pied HF - cow - Netherlands
• Dutch Improved Red Pied - bull - Netherlands
• Dutch Red Pied Dual-Purpose - Netherlands
• Groningen Whiteheaded - cow - Netherlands
• Meuse-Rhine-Yssel - bull - Netherlands
• Red Pied Friesian - cow - Netherlands

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Dutch Argentine (syn. Holando Argentino) - Argentina
Dutch Belt (syn. Dutch Belted) - USA
Dutch Belted - cow, bull - USA
Dutch Black Pied HF - cow - Netherlands
Dutch Dairy - Netherlands
Dutch Friesian - South Africa
Dutch Friesian (syn. Fries Hollands (FH), zwartbont) - cow - Netherlands
Dutch Improved Red Pied - bull - Netherlands
Dutch Lowland (obs. syn. Dutch Black Pied) - Netherlands
Dutch Red Pied (re. Meuse-Rhine-Yssel) - Netherlands
Dutch Red Pied Dual-Purpose - Netherlands
Dutch Red-and-White (syn. Meuse-Rhine-Yssel) - Netherlands
Dutch Whitebacked (syn. Witrik) - Netherlands
dwarf (type of cattle)

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dwarf cattle:
• Achham - Nepal
• Albanian Dwarf - Albania
• Bengali - Bangladesh/India
• Betizu - cow - France/Spain
• Cachena/Portugal - cow, bull and cow - Portugal
• Cachena/Spain - bull, cow - Spain
• Chagga - Tanzania
• Dagestan Mountain - Russia
• Dexter - bull - Ireland
• Indian Hill - India
• Kabyle (var. Brown Atlas) - Algeria
• Kedah-Kelantan - Malaysia
• Konari (var. Afghan) - cow - Afghanistan
• Madhya Pradesh dwarf zebus - India
• Malnad Gidda - India
• Nepalese Hill (syn. Pahadi) - Nepal
• Nuba Mountain - cow - Sudan
• Oman Zebu - Oman
• Posavina (extinct) - Croatia/Bosnia
• Punganur - India
• Rodopi - Bulgaria
• Sinhala - bull - Sri Lanka
• Socotra - Yemen
• Tibetan - Tibet
• Valachian Dwarf (extinct) - Czechia
• Vechur - India
• West African Dwarf Shorthorn - West Africa
• West Macedonian (var. Greek Shorthorn) - Greece

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Dwarf Cow (syn. Vechur) - India
Dwarf Humpless (re. West African Dwarf Shorthorn) - West Africa
Dwarf Shorthorn (re. West African Dwarf Shorthorn) - West Africa

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Dwarf Shorthorn (group) - West Africa

Dwarf Shorthorn cattle:
• Bakweri - Cameroon
• Forest Muturu - Nigeria
• Gambia Dwarf - Gambia
• Lagune - Benin/Côte d'Ivoire/Togo
• Liberian Dwarf - Liberia
• Manjaca - Guinea-Bissau

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Dwarf-zebus of Madhya Pradesh (re. Madhya Pradesh dwarf) - India
Dynevor - Wales
dzo - cow - Tibet
dzobo (re. dzo) - Tibet
dzomo (re. dzo) - Tibet

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