The Guzerá or Guzerat is a Brazilian
breed
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of
domestic cattle. It derives from
cross-breeding of Indian
Kankrej cattle, imported to Brazil from 1870 onwards, with local
taurine
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Crioulo cattle of European origin. The name is a Portuguese spelling of that of the western Indian state of
Gujarat
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.
The
herd-book
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for the breed was started in 1938; in it, a dual-purpose (meat and dairy) line is distinguished from the beef type, and a
polled variant is also distinguished. In 2010 there were approximately head registered, constituting some 3.5% of the total number of indicine cattle in Brazil.
The Guzerá was one of the principal breeds from which the American
Brahman
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developed in the twentieth century.
References
Cattle breeds originating in Brazil
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