White Lamphun, Hill Cattle, Fighting Bull
Suwat Rattanaronchart
The White Lamphun and Hill cattle are two widely spread native cattle breeds in Upper-Northern Thailand. They are rather high fertility animals, tolerant to poor quality of natural grasses, tolerant to internal and external parasites, and resisted to diseases such as Anaplasmosis. They adapted well to hot and humid climate.
White Lamphun Cattle:
White Lamphun is entirely white color with a pink skin
cattle, and possibly classified as an endangered-maintained breed
(with probably fewer than 1,000 breeding females). Its origin was
not known, but was once popular breed among northern Thai. Its
name was derived from Lamphun province where the breed was
prevalent. From karyotype study, it revealed that White Lamphun
should be classified as Bos indicus as with other Thai native
cattle. They are biggest among Thai native cattle. According to
the Chiangmai University herd of White Lamphun, initiated in 1982,
with very low quality of grasses for grazing, without concentrate
supplement except rice straw during the dry period, and also a
lot of ticks and flies condition, these animals yield rather high
fertility (80 to 90% annual calving rate) and low preweaning
mortality rate (5%). Their average birth weight was 18 kg, and
maximum body weight have been ever weighed was 550 kg.
Pictutre of White Lamphun bull
Picture of Chiangmai University
White Lamphun Herd
Hill Cattle: Hill cattle
are varied in color (white gray to black), and probably are
smallest (150-200 kg mature wt.) among Thai native cattle. They
were raised mainly by hilltribe peoples in mountainous areas.
They are very important source of meat supplying to the beef ball
factories. Its population size is possibly greater than 100,000
heads. It is now collecting a sample to evaluate the breed by
Chiangmai University.
Picture of Hill Cattle
Picture of Hill Cattle cow
Fighting bull: Fighting
bull is very popular in southern Thailand, therefore southern
Thai native cattle is usually prefer for using as fighting bull.
Actually, any Thai native cattle can be used as fighting bull,
such as the White Lamphun fighting bull in this picture
Picture of Fighting Bull
Picture of Fighting White Lamphun
bull
Picture of Bulls Fighting (0)
Picture of Bulls Fighting (1)
Picture of Bulls Fighting (2)
Picture of Bulls Fighting (3)
Picture of Bulls Fighting (4)
Picture of Bulls Fighting (5)
Picture of The Winner