Pineywoods cattle

Pineywoods
Conservation status
Country of originUnited States
Distribution
Usetriple-purpose: meat, milk and draft
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    350–550 kg
  • Female:
    275–350 kg
Coatvery variable, many colours and patterns
Horn statususually horned
  • Cattle
  • Bos (primigenius) taurus

The Pineywoods is an endangered American breed of triple-purpose cattle. It derives from cattle of Iberian origin brought to Americas by the conquistadores in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It is one of three such criollo breeds and is found mainly in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, between the ranges of the other two breeds, the Florida Cracker to the east and the Texas Longhorn to the west.[4]: 270 

In the twenty-first century it is an endangered breed; in 2023 its conservation status was listed by the Livestock Conservancy as 'threatened', the second level of concern of the association.[2].

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