World Building: How many cows are there?

 I was reading some blogs the other day, and this one struck me as both funny and relevant to world building: How many cows are there? And of course, like most gamers, both the author, and then I, go down a rabbit hole looking at cow information.

From the site he found, there are 77 beef breeds of cows, and 24 dairy breeds. And this just begs for some sort of a random table! Probably because I have a LOT of random table sources yet rarely make my own.

Guess we can also roll the herd size, but it would generally be consistent with the size of the town or city that it is near to. A village of 20 people do not need 1,000 head of cow! And a dozen cows would not suffice for a small city of 10,000 people. We'll just go make it an appropriate size. Though an odd size could be a puzzle: perhaps they are feeding a nearby dragon or making a large number of bovine sacrifices for some reason.

It could get more complicated, but we will start with simple:

1D6	Type
1-3	Dairy
4-6	Beef

 And now we have a lot of cows to add; there were 77 beef cows and 24 dairy cows from that site from a site I found!

Beef Cows

roll	Breed	roll	Breed
01	Aberdeen Angus	51	Parthenais
02	Africander	52	Piemontese
03	Aubrac	53	Pinzgauer
04	Barzona	54	Red Angus
05	Bazadaise	55	Red Poll
06	Beef Shorthorn	56	Retinta
07	Beefalo	57	Romagnola
08	Beefmaster	58	Salers
09	Belgian Blue	59	Sanganer
10	Belmont Red	60	Santa Cruz
11	Belted Galloway	61	Santa Gertrudis
12	Blonde d'Aquitaine	62	Senepol
13	Bonsmara	63	Shetland
14	Boran	64	Simbrah
15	Braford	65	Simmental
16	Brahman	66	South Devon
17	Brahmousin	67	Speckle Park
18	Brangus	68	Square Meaters
19	British White	69	Sussex
20	Buelingo	70	Tarentaise
21	Canchim	71	Texas Longhorn
22	Caracu	72	Tuli
23	Charolais	73	Wagyu
24	Chianina	74	Watusi
25	Composite	75	Welsh Black
26	Corriente	76	Zebu
27	Devon	77	something interesting
28	Dexter	78	something interesting
29	Drakensberger	79	something interesting
30	Droughtmaster	80	something interesting
31	English Longhorn	81	something interesting
32	Galloway	82	something interesting
33	Gelbvieh	83	something interesting
34	Gloucester	83	something interesting
35	Hays Converter	85	something interesting
36	Hereford	86	something interesting
37	Highland	87	something interesting
38	Hybridmaster	88	something interesting
39	Limousin	89	something interesting
40	Lincoln Red	90	something interesting
41	Lowline	91	something interesting
42	Luing	92	something interesting
43	Maine-Anjou (Rouge des Prés)	93	something interesting
44	Marchigiana	94	something interesting
45	Miniature Hereford	95	something interesting
46	Mirandesa	96	something interesting
47	Mongolian	97	something interesting
48	Murray Grey	98	something interesting
49	Nelore	99	something interesting
50	Nguni	100	something interesting

Diary Cows

d100	Breed
01-04	Ayrshire
05-08	Brown Swiss
08-12	Busa
13-16	Canadienne
17-20	Dairy Shorthorn
21-24	Dutch Belted
25-28	Estonian Red
29-32	Fleckvieh
33-36	Friesian
37-40	Girolando
41-44	Guernsey
45-48	Holstein
49-52	Illawarra
53-56	Irish Moiled
57-60	Jersey
61-64	Kerry
65-68	Lineback
69-72	Meuse Rhine Issel
73-76	Milking Devon
77-80	Montbéliarde
81-84	Normande
85-88	Norwegian Red
89-92	Randall
93-96	Sahiwal
97-100	something special