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Limousin
Limousine cow
Conservation status
FAO (2007): not at risk[1]: 144
DAD-IS (2020): not at risk[2]
Other names
Limousine
Country of origin
France
Distribution
about 80 countries world-wide
Use
formerly draught
beef
crossbreeding
Traits
Weight
Male:
1000–1300 kg[3]: 168
Female:
650–850 kg[3]: 168
Height
Male:
140–155 cm[3]: 168
Female:
135–145 cm[3]: 168
Coat
unicolour wheaten[4]
Horn status
horned in both sexes[2]
Cattle
Bos (primigenius) taurus
The Limousin, French: Limousine, is a French breed of beef cattle from the Limousin and Marche regions of France. It was formerly used mainly as a draught animal, but in modern times is reared for beef. A herd-book was established in France in 1886. With the mechanisation of agriculture in the twentieth century, numbers declined. In the 1960s there were still more than 250 000 head, but the future of the breed was not clear; it was proposed that it be merged with the other blonde draught breeds of south-western France – the Blonde des Pyrénées, the Blonde de Quercy and the Garonnaise – to form the new Blonde d'Aquitaine.[5]: 228 Instead, a breeders' association was formed; new importance was given to extensive management, to performance recording and to exports. In the twenty-first century the Limousin is the second-most numerous beef breed in France after the Charolais. It is a world breed, raised in about eighty countries round the world, many of which have breed associations.[5]: 228
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