The Latvian Brown is a cattle breed that began to be formed when Angeln cattle were imported into Latvia to improve the local, low-productive cattle.
In 1947 the breed was given a new name - Red-Brown Latvian. By 1980, numbers had reached over one million.
These cattle vary in color from light-red to dark-red and the bulls can be as heavy as 1000 kilograms (2205 pounds).[1]
References
- ^ Embryo Plus - LATVIAN BROWN Archived 2010-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
- Oklahoma State University webpage
- European Red Dairy Breed Association Archived 2010-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Animal Breeders Association of Latvia Archived 2013-02-21 at archive.today