CATTLE descriptions and terminology in Australia can often vary significantly between regions, market sectors and even between breeds. While there is a national language for livestock description that has been agreed to, and published by Meat & Livestock Australia and AusMeat, there are still many subjective descriptions that are frequently used to describe cattle and traits.
Quite often these subjective descriptions are used in reference to particular traits of an animal. Occasionally these descriptions reference the trait with an inference that it will have some association or…