Pineywoods (cattle)

Pineywoods (cattle)

Pineywoods cattle are an endangered breed of landrace heritage cattle that are descended from the original Spanish stock left along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama by the Spanish explorers in the early 16th century. The breed was historically cultivated by the Florida crackers, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.

The cattle bred without human interference in the brushy wooded terrain of the Gulf Coast. They developed natural resistance to disease and are able to forage on marginal vegetation.