This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.Dairy cattle are those primarily raised for their milk as part of dairy farming.
Breed | Country of Origin | Output per Day | Other | |
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Gallons | Litres | |||
Ayrshire cattle | Scotland | 5 | 19 | Can be used for foraging |
Brown Swiss | Switzerland | 8 | 30 | Second largest amount of milk produced of any dairy cattle breed. |
Buša cattle | Croatia | 1 | 3.8 | |
Canadienne cattle | Canada | 2.7 | 10.4 | Very rare breed. |
Dairy Shorthorn | England | 7.6 | 29 | Also called the milking shorthorn. |
Dexter cattle | Ireland | 2 | 7.5 | Very small in size. Used in domestic farms. |
Guernsey cattle | Guernsey | 5 | 19 | One of the channel islands cattle. |
Holstein-Friesian cattle | Netherlands | Up to 14 | Up to 53 | Known for producing the most amount of milk of any cattle. |
Illawarra cattle | Australia | 2 | 7.5 | |
Irish Moiled | Ireland | 2 | 7.5 | Rare breed and can be dual purpose, meat and milk. |
Jersey Cattle | Jersey | 5 | 19 | Has a very high content of butterfat in the milk. |
Lakenvelder cattle | Netherlands | Up to 5 | 9000 | |
American Milking Devon | America | 5 | 23 | Originally bred from the North Devon cattle |
Milking Shorthorn | Britain | 6 | 22 | |
Montbéliarde | France | 6 | 21 | |
Normande | France | 5 | 18 | |
Norwegian Red | Norway | 5 | 18 | |
Red Poll | England 4 | 15 | A cross of Norfolk Red and Suffolk Dun |