How Do You Identify Florida Cracker Or Pineywoods Cattle?
• Do a search on the Internet or your cattle breeds book on “Florda Cracker/Pineywoods” cattle. • Study the characteristics of the breed. Note the following: • Colouration: Like their cousins the Texas Longhorns, Cracker/Pineywoods cattle come in a wide variety of colours and colour patterns, from almost all white (with coloured points on the nose, eyes, ears and hooves) to red to yellow to black. Most cattle come in some sort of speckled pattern, but also come as roan, tiger-stripe and brindle, very similar to that of the Longhorn breed. • Body type and characteristics: Like Corrientes, Cracker cattle are small cattle (smaller than Longhorns) and generally a bit rangy, not overly beefy and big like the more modern beef breeds are (such as Limousins and Angus cattle). The mature weight of Scrub cows is usually under 900 lbs, with those of dwarf or “guinea” type animals being quite a bit smaller. • Head characteristics: Florida Crackers are horned, though the length of the horns are not
