Guzerá | |
Image Alt: | a humped grey bull with dark head and foreparts, dark legs, and dark rump and tail |
Country: | Brazil |
Maleweight: | 900 kg |
Femaleweight: | 600 kg |
Coat: | usually grey or white |
Subspecies: | hybrid |
The Guzerá or Guzerat is a Brazilian breed of domestic cattle. It derives from cross-breeding of Indian Kankrej cattle, imported to Brazil from 1870 onwards, with local taurine Crioulo cattle of European origin. The name is a Portuguese spelling of that of the western Indian state of Gujarat.
The herd-book 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 developed in the twentieth century.