White Park cattle
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colour-pointed – white with black or red points | |
Horn status | horned |
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The White Park is a modern British
In the twenty-first century it is an
.In the United States it is known as the Ancient White Park; the American White Park is a different breed.[14]
History
In 1225, as a result of legislation passed by
The Park Cattle registration programme in Britain was started in the early 1900s, but by 1946 only the Dynevor,
White Park cattle have been exported to several countries. In 1921, animals were exported to Denmark, and from there to Latvia in 1935 and thence to Germany in 1972. In 1987, cattle were exported to Australia. In 1940, one or two pairs of cattle from the Cadzow herd were exported to Canada. Some of their Canadian-born offspring were transferred to the Bronx Zoo, and later moved to the King Ranch in Texas, where they remained for nearly forty years. In the US the breed is known as the Ancient White Park to distinguish from the hornless American White Park, a population of the British White. The genesis of a herd has been established in New Zealand. Fertile embryos were imported in 2014 for IVF to donor cows. The birthed White Park females provided additional eggs for a second round of IVF.
Most national populations of White Park cattle have been DNA tested to verify parentage, to confirm the provenance of products, and to enable assignment of applicant animals to breed and determine the optimum breeding programme to ensure their effective conservation survival. The breeding programme in the UK aims to increase the desirable characteristics of the breed while maintaining genetic diversity, as
In 2013 a small herd was moved for conservation reasons to the Isle of Man.[16]
In 2023 the breed was reported to DAD-IS by four countries – Australia (where it may be extinct), Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.[4]
Characteristics
The White Park is a medium-large, long-bodied
Until recently, White Park cattle were a triple-purpose breed used for meat, milk and draught. The 3rd
The white park, a breed I’ve never eaten before and had always assumed was purely ornamental, was really excellent: softly chewy, with that strong, distinctive, almost corrupt flavour of proper beef
— A.A. Gill, Table Talk: Sweet and Sour, Salt and Bitter
Studies of
The colour-pointed coat pattern also appears in other cattle breeds such as the Irish Moiled, the Blanco Orejinegro , the Berrenda, the Nguni and the Texas Longhorn.
References
- ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
- ^ Watchlist 2022–23. Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Archived 28 September 2022.
- ^ Breed data sheet: White Park / United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Cattle). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2023.
- ^ a b Transboundary breed: White Park. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2023.
- ^ a b White Park Cattle. White Park Cattle Society. Archived 5 August 2023
- ISBN 9781780647944.
- ISBN 9789054390176.
- doi:10.3390/d6040705
- ISBN 9780747807643.
- ISBN 9780760331927.
- ^ Cattle watchlist. Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Accessed June 2023.
- ^ Fact Sheet: Chillingham. Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Archived 17 July 2014.
- ^ Fact Sheet: Vaynol. Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Archived 17 July 2014.
- ^ Ancient White Park Cattle. Pittsboro, North Carolina: The Livestock Conservancy. Archived 31 March 2023.
- ^ a b Alderson, L. 1997. A Breed of Distinction. CLL, Shrewsbury
- ^ [s.n.] (20 November 2013). Herd of rare cattle 'move to Isle of Man Jurassic Park'. London: BBC. Archived 25 October 2019.
- . (subscription required).
- ^ Nicola J. Royle (1983). Polymorphisms of Rare Breeds of Cattle (doctoral thesis). Reading: University of Reading.
Further reading
- Bahn, Paul; Mutimer, Vera, eds. (2016). Chillingham: Its Cattle, Castle and Church. Fonthill Media. ISBN 9781781555224.
- Ritvo, Harriet (2010). "Race, Breed and Myths of Origin: Chillingham Cattle as Ancient Britons". Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
- Whitehead, G. Kenneth (1953). The Ancient White Cattle of Britain and their Descendants. London: Faber & Faber.