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Blaarkop
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The Blaarkop or Groninger Blaarkop is a Dutch breed of dual-purpose cattle. Blaarkop is Dutch for blister head. Its main breeding area is in the province of Groningen.
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- Country of origin
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
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- Rode blaarkop hoogdrachtig.jpg
- Has use
- cow's milk
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- Blaarkop
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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The Blaarkop or Groninger Blaarkop is a Dutch breed of dual-purpose cattle. Blaarkop is Dutch for blister head. Its main breeding area is in the province of Groningen.
== History == thumb|Head of a Bellowing Ox, painting by Jan Asselijn, early seventeenth century White-headed cattle in Holland have been mentioned as early as the fourteenth century. Cattle showing some similarity to the modern Blaarkop appear in an Adoration by Pieter Aertsen dating from about 1560, and in a seventeenth-century Head of a Bellowing Ox by Jan Asselijn. From the nineteenth century, there are also Blaarkoppen in the Utrecht and Leiden regions.
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