![]() Some further imports, totalling about 700 head, took place after 1981. Įxports of cattle of this breed to Australia began in 1933 and continued until 1954, and amounted to 49 head in all by 1973 their offspring numbered more than 225,000. : 137 The association registered all American indicine cattle in the same herd-book until 1991, when herd-books for Gir, Guzerat, Indu-Brasil, Nelore and Tabapua were separated from that for the American Red and Grey Brahman. The registration in 1946 of eighteen imported Brazilian bulls, mainly Indu-Brasil and Gir, was permitted, as were some later additions of imported stock. In 1939 the herd-book was closed, thereafter recording only the offspring of registered parents. ![]() : 137 The name "Brahman" was chosen by J. : 193Ī breed association, the American Brahman Breeders Association, was formed in 1924, and a herd-book was started. These were mainly zebuine-taurine hybrid Guzerá, : 137 but also included some Gir and Nelore there were 210 bulls and 18 cows in total. : 193 In 19 larger numbers of Brazilian cattle were brought to the United States through Mexico. : 137 Other small groups of Indian cattle were imported up to about 1906, mostly to Texas some of them were imported to be displayed as circus animals, and were later sold to ranchers. ![]() Cross-breeding of these with local taurine cows was the first step in the creation of the Brahman breed. In 1885 a pair of grey bulls was brought directly from India to Texas one was large, weighing over 800 kg, the other weighed little more than half that. ![]() Zebuine (Asian humped) cattle were present in the United States from 1849, when a single bull of Indian origin was imported from the United Kingdom to South Carolina.
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