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{{short description|Breed of beef cattle}}
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{{Infobox cattle breed
| name          = Red Angus
| image         = 2009-red-angus.jpg
| image_caption = Cow and calf
| status        = [[FAO]] 2007: not at risk{{r|barb|page=145}}
| altname       = {{ubl|Angus Rojo|Rdeci Angus}}{{r|dad}}
| country       = {{ubl|Australia|United States}}
| distribution  = {{ubl|Australia|Canada|Cuba|Ecuador|Panama|Peru|Slovenia|United States}}
| standard      =
| use           = Beef
| maleweight    = 900 kg{{r|cabi|page=278}}
| femaleweight  = 635 kg{{r|cabi|page=278}}
| maleheight    =
| femaleheight  =
| skincolour    =
| coat          = red
| horn          = [[Polled livestock|polled]]
| subspecies    = taurus
| note          =
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[[File:Red angus cows oregon (cropped).jpg|thumb|Cow and calf in Oregon]]
The '''Red Angus''' is an international breed of [[beef cattle]] characterised by a reddish-brown coat colour. It derives from the Scottish [[Aberdeen Angus]] population and is identical to it in all but coat colour. Red Angus are registered separately from black Angus cattle in Australia, Canada, and the United States.{{r|marl}}

== History ==

The Scottish [[Angus (cattle)|Angus]] is usually black, but red individuals occur; this may be the consequence of [[cross-breeding]] in the eighteenth century of the small Scottish cattle with larger [[English Longhorn]] stock, aimed at increasing their [[draught animal|draught]] power.{{r|rasa}}

In the United States, these red individuals could until 1917 be registered in the [[herdbook]] of the American Angus Association. From about 1945, some herds consisting only of red-coated stock were formed.{{r|frank|page=238}} In 1954 a [[breeders' association]], the Red Angus Association of America, was established at a meeting in [[Fort Worth, Texas]].{{r|bob|page=14}} The registered population in 2008 numbered about {{nobreak|47 000}} head, making it the fifth beef breed by number in the United States; [[American Angus]], [[Charolais (cattle)|Charolais]], [[Hereford (cattle)|Hereford]] and [[Simmental (cattle)|Simmental]] were more numerous.{{r|cabi|page=278}}

In Australia, breeders of the red variant proposed a scheme for registration of their stock with the Angus Society of Australia; it was not accepted, and in 1970 they formed the Red Angus Society of Australia.{{r|cabi|page=278}} 

The Red Angus is reported to [[DAD-IS]] by Australia, Cuba, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Slovenia and the United States; its global [[conservation status]] is "not at risk".{{r|dad}}

== Use ==

The Red Angus is a [[beef]] breed, and is reared only for that purpose.{{r|marl}} Comparative trials have not identified any commercially{{hyphen}}significant difference between it and the [[American Angus]].{{r|cabi|page=278}} Bulls have been used as sires for [[crossbreeding]]. The Red Angus is a parent breed to the [[Regus (cattle)|Regus]] (cross-breeding with [[Hereford (cattle)|Hereford]]) and to the RX3 (a mixture of Hereford, Red Angus and [[Red Holstein]]).{{r|cabi|page=278}}

== References ==

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<ref name=barb>{{cite book |chapter=Annex: Breeds currently recorded in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources |editor-last1=Rischkowsky |editor-first1=Barbara |editor-last2=Pilling |editor-first2=Dafydd |title=The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture |date=2007 |publisher=FAO |location=Rome |isbn=978-92-5-105762-9 |url=https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/435afdb0-3d4d-42b5-9a04-758ff80b89a1 |chapter-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623201209/http://www.fao.org/3/a1250e/annexes/List%20of%20breeds%20documented%20in%20the%20Global%20Databank%20for%20Animal%20Genetic%20Resources/List_breeds.pdf }}</ref>

<ref name=bob>Bob Hough (2005). [https://books.google.it/books?id=StoqAQAAMAAJ&hl=en ''History of the Red Angus'']. Denton, Texas: Red Angus Association of America.</ref>

<ref name=cabi>Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). [https://books.google.it/books?id=2UEJDAAAQBAJ&hl=en ''Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding''] (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. {{ISBN|9781780647944}}.</ref>

<ref name=dad>[https://dadis-transboundary-ext-ws.web.app/?species=Cattle&transboundary=Red%20Angus&lang=en Transboundary breed: Red Angus]. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2023.</ref>

<ref name=frank>Frank Flanders, James R. Gillespie (2015). [https://books.google.it/books?id=9kJ-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA238&hl=en ''Modern Livestock & Poultry Production'']. Boston, Massachusetts: Cengage Learning. {{isbn|9781133283508}}.</ref>

<ref name=marl>Marleen Felius (1995). [https://books.google.it/books?id=iXImAQAAMAAJ&hl=en ''Cattle Breeds: An Encyclopedia'']. Doetinchem, Netherlands: Misset. {{ISBN|9789054390176}}.</ref>

<ref name=rasa>[http://www.redangus.org.au/origins/ The Origin of Red Angus]. Red Angus Society of Australia. Accessed October 2018.</ref>  


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