Blue Butt

Color:  White with black flank

Purpose:  Meat, cross between Hampshire x Yorkshire

Unique:  Good to handle and show

Chester White

Color:  White

Purpose:  Meat, slower growing

Unique:  Floppy kinked ears, stalky legs

Landrace

Color:  White

Purpose:  Meat, good mothers, sows are longer

Unique:  Floppy straight ears

Duroc

Color:  Brown

Purpose:  Meat, rugged and meaty, fast growing

Unique:  Problems with too much fat

Hampshire

Color:  Black with pink stripe

Purpose:  Meat, good muscling

Unique:  Not good mothers

Yorkshire

Color:  White

Purpose:  Meat, not good muscling, but popular because white

Unique:  Large litters, good mothers

Large White

Color:  White

Purpose:  Meat

Unique:  slender ears, arched back

Plymouth Barred Rocks

Color:  Black and White stripes

Purpose:  Brown eggs

Unique:  Dual purpose

Bantams (Bantees)

Color:  Multi

Purpose:  Ornamental

Unique:  Miniature, all breeds have them

Cochin

Color:  All kinds

Purpose:  Ornamental

Unique:  Feathers on legs

Rhode Island Red

Color:  Dark Red

Purpose:  Brown eggs

Unique:  No feathers on legs

White Leghorn

Color:  Solid white

Purpose:  White eggs

Unique:  Slim bodies

Cornish

Color:  Solid white

Purpose:  Ultimate meat breed

Unique:  Muscular bodies

Araucana/Ameraucanas

Color:  Reds and Browns

Purpose:  Eggs “Easter hens”

Unique:  Fluffy cheeks

Shorthorn

Origin:  England

Color:  Red, red and white, red/white roan

Unique:  Dual-purpose

Simmental (exotic)

Origin:  Switzerland

Color:  Orange/Yellow Red and white to black

Unique:  Large frame with heavy dewlap

Charolais (exotic)

Origin:  France

Color:  Traditionally white, can be cream or off-white

Unique:  Always white-ish

Red Angus

Origin:  British Isles

Color:  Solid red

Unique:  Barred from Angus herdbook

Beefmaster (American)

Origin:  United States

Color:  Brown or deep red

Unique:  ½ Brahman, ¼ Hereford, ¼ Shorthorn

Linousin (exotic)

Origin:  South-Central France

Color:  Golden-red to red-brown, can be black

Unique:  Long like a limousine

Maine Ajou (exotic)

Origin:  France

Color:  Traditionally deep, dark red with white belly, head, tail, and hind legs.  May be black and white, all black, or all red

Unique:  Known to be docile.  Look like pretty bison

Santa Gertrudis (American)

Origin:  Texas

Color:  Red

Unique:  All descendants are from the bull, Monkey

Angus

Origin:  Scotland

Color:  Solid black

Unique:  Known for marbling

Simbrah (American)

Origin:  United States

Color:  Light to dark red with some white marks

Unique:  Cross between Brahman and Simmental

Hereford

Origin:  Hereford, England

Color:  Red with a white face and white stripe down neck

Unique:  Hardy for winter

Chianina (exotic)

Origin:  Italy

Color:  White to grey

Unique:  One of the oldest breeds.  Terminal breed.  Low milk production

Brangus (American)

Origin:  United States

Color:  Solid black

Unique:  Cross between Brahman and Angus

Brahman (American)

Origin:  India

Color:  White to grey

Unique:  Ancient looking

Black Baldie

Origin:  Holland

Color:  Black with trademark white face

Unique:  Black Angus and Hereford

Dutch Belted

Origin:  Switzerland and Austria

Color:  Black with white belt

Unique:  Dual purpose

Brown Swiss

Origin:  Switzerland

Color:  Grey to Fawn, metallic shine, white nose with white-ish legs, dark switch, muzzle, and hooves

Unique:  Docile, friendly behavior

Jersey

Origin:  Island of Jersey

Color:  Brown to light Grey

Unique:  Doe-eyes, HIGH butterfat (second to Guernsey)

Milking Shorthorn

Origin:  England

Color:  Red, Red Roan, White Roan

Unique:  Dairy version of Beef Shorthorn

Guernsey

Origin:  Isle of Guernsey

Color:  White and Brown/Red/Tan

Unique:  HIGH butterfat milk

Holstein

Origin:  Netherlands

Color:  Black and White

Unique:  HIGH milk volume, efficient milk production

Alpine

Origin:  Alps

Color:  Multi

Purpose:  Dairy

Unique:  Slender erect ears, short spikey horns

Angora

Origin:  Angora

Color:  White, curly (poodle of sheep)

Purpose:  Wool

Unique:  Horizontal and slightly curled horns (both sexes)

Boer

Origin:  South Africa

Color:  White body, brown head

Purpose:  Meat

Unique:  Horns slick back

La Mancha

Origin:  Oregon, United States

Color:  Multi

Purpose:  Dairy

Unique:  VERY short ears

Cashmere

Origin:  Middle East

Color:  White, long, soft, straight, hair

Purpose:  Hair

Unique:  Regal appearance

Nubian

Origin:  Nubia

Color:  Multi, mostly browns

Purpose:  Dual

Unique:  VERY loud

Myotonic

Origin:  Tennessee

Color:  Commonly black and white

Purpose:  Meat

Unique:  Faints

Toggenburg

Origin:  Switzerland

Color:  Fawn to dark brown with an erect tail and white under-tail

Purpose:  Dairy

Unique:  White mask

Pygmy

Origin:  Africa

Color:  tip of tail, ears, and muzzle MUST be white

Purpose:  Ornamental

Unique:  VERY tiny