Red Sindhi cattle

The Red Sindhi cattle is the most popular of all Zebu dairy cattle breeds. The breed originated in the province of Sindh in Pakistan.

Sindhi cattle are kept in many countries for milk production, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Very often they are also used for the hybrid crossing with dairy breeds in temperate latitudes to combine their adaptation to tropical conditions ( heat tolerance, tick resistance, disease resistance, fertility, despite high temperatures, etc. ) with the higher milk production in temperate latitudes. In many places they are crossed with jerseys, including India, the USA, Australia and Sri Lanka. Even with other breeds such as Holstein cattle, the Brown Swiss and Red Danish dairy cattle they are crossed. Also for improvement of meat and dual-purpose breeds in many tropical countries they are used because they have enough meat approach to produce in those crossings good veal calves, which then grow very rapidly thanks to their good milk production and may be slaughtered after only one year.

The Red Sindhi cow is slightly smaller than that of the very similar Sahiwal and therefore produces less milk per cow. Thus, the Red Sindhi cattle lost in some dairy cattle farmers in India and Pakistan in favor. This crossed into its Sindh herds over several generations Sahiwal bulls. The resulting cattle, Sahiwal and the fourth Sindh consist of three quarters, but are not considered purebred Sahiwal.

The Red Sindhi cattle are red, deep red-brown to yellow-brown, but mostly deep red. They differ from the other dairy cattle from Sindh, Tharparkar, or the White Sindh beef, both by color and by the form. The Red Sindhi cattle are smaller, rounder, more milk in Guy Standing and with short, curved horns, while the Tharparkar, more like the typical Zebu Zugtierrassen is built bigger and has a longer, lyriform horns.