White Lamphun, Hill Cattle, Fighting Bull

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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
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Picture of Bulls Fighting (1)
Picture of Bulls Fighting (2)
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Picture of The Winner