List of dairy cattle breeds

Dairy cattle are those primarily raised for their milk as part of dairy farming.

Breed	Country of Origin	Output per Day		Other
		Gallons	Litres
Ayrshire cattle	Scotland	5	19	Can be used for foraging
Brown Swiss	Switzerland	8	30	Second largest amount of milk produced of any dairy cattle breed.
Buša cattle	Croatia	1	3.8
Canadienne cattle	Canada	2.7	10.4	Very rare breed.
Dairy Shorthorn	England	7.6	29	Also called the milking shorthorn.
Dexter cattle	Ireland	2	7.5	Very small in size. Used in domestic farms.
Guernsey cattle	Guernsey	5	19	One of the channel islands cattle.
Holstein-Friesian cattle	Netherlands	Up to 14	Up to 53	Known for producing the most amount of milk of any cattle.
Illawarra cattle	Australia	2	7.5
Irish Moiled	Ireland	2	7.5	Rare breed and can be dual purpose, meat and milk.
Jersey Cattle	Jersey	5	19	Has a very high content of butterfat in the milk.
Lakenvelder cattle	Netherlands	Up to 5	9000
American Milking Devon	America	5	23	Originally bred from the North Devon cattle
Milking Shorthorn	Britain	6	22
Montbéliarde	France	6	21
Normande	France	5	18
Norwegian Red	Norway	5	18
Red Poll	England           4		15	A cross of Norfolk Red and Suffolk Dun