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Friesian

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Friesian
a breed of dairy cattle. See holstein-friesian.
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Friesian dairy cow. By permission from Sambraus HH, Livestock Breeds, Mosby, 1992

Friesian horse
Dutch light horse used for driving and riding. Black with no markings, 15 hands high. A muscular horse with feather on the lower limbs.


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Erskine Childers's The Riddle Of The Sands, the 1903 tale of a yachting trip to the Friesian Islands that uncovers a secret German invasion plan, is sometimes cited as the first herald of the new genre.
Featured in the circus are Friesian stallions, a rare breed of horse from the Netherlands.
With my degree I would be worth exotic cows, Friesians or Jerseys, not the common long-horned Ankole cattle.
 
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