Family: Bovidae

Weight: 350 to 500 kg for males, 250 to 300 kg for females for adults

Size: height at the withers of 1.50m on average for males and 1.40m for females

Coat: Mahogany or black coat

Particularity: very fine walking animals, adapted to great transhumance, which explains their large area of dispersion in Niger, Cameroon, Nigeria and Burkina Faso. This breed has limited abilities in terms of milk production, meat production and work.

The Bororo breed represents approximately 18% (INRAN, 1996) of the population of the national herd and takes its name from one of the Peulh tribes of Niger. The same breed receives other names: M'Bororo, Rahadji, and Hana Gamba (Magha and Attaou, 1998).

In English literature the terms Red Fulani or Red-Longhorn are used to refer to the Bororo cattle breed. The Bororo is a large animal with a. Bororo has the following characteristics:

• Very long high lyre horns

• Age at first calving: 42 months

• Average birth weight: ND

• Carcass yield: 40 to 50%

• milk production: 180 to 300 kg for a lactation lasting between 180 and 200 days;

Distribution: Bororo, originally from Niger, is also present in other countries of the sub-region, particularly in Nigeria, Benin, Chad, Cameroon and the Central African Republic.

ND: Not Defined