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unusual facts about Aberdeen Angus



Bellever

The farm gained a reputation for the introduction of Galloway and Aberdeen Angus cattle onto Dartmoor.

Hanstead Stud

The women bred livestock (Aberdeen Angus and Jersey cattle) and horses, including Suffolk Punches (large draught horses, still used to work the land, until tractors became widespread) and Thoroughbreds (a breed used for fox hunting as well as flat racing and steeplechases).

Victoria, Kansas

Grant intended for Victoria to be a ranching community and was purportedly responsible for bringing the first Aberdeen Angus cattle to the United States.


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John Moores, Jr.

He was a member of the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society, of which he later become president and in March 2012 was the first of its members to be awarded the societies Hugh Watson Lifetime Achievement Award.

Swona

When the population departed they left a herd of beef cattle - 8 cows and 1 bull (Shorthorn - Aberdeen-Angus cross).