Blanco Orejinegro BON

Blanco Orejinegro, often shortened to BON, is a Colombian Criollo cattle breed whose name describes a white animal with black ears. It descends from Iberian cattle brought to the Americas and was shaped in the Andean and tropical farming regions of Colombia, especially Antioquia and nearby departments. The classic animal has a white coat with black ears, dark muzzle, pigmented skin, and dark feet or points. BON cattle are moderate in size and valued in Latin American livestock circles for fertility, longevity, and adaptation to heat, humidity, steep land, and parasite pressure.

BON is kept as a genetic resource, a suckler or dual-purpose farm animal, and a crossbreeding option for producers who want locally adapted cattle without relying entirely on zebu influence. It may not match specialized beef breeds for feedlot growth, but cows can be productive on forage where imported temperate breeds struggle. Breeding programs in Colombia use herdbooks, performance data, and sometimes semen conservation to protect the breed while selecting for usable production traits. Keepers should preserve the black-eared pigmentation and avoid losing the adaptation that makes BON useful.

Colors: Belted, Black, Black and White, Blaze Faced, Blue Roan, Brindle, Brockle Faced, Brown, Brown and White, Dun, Gray, Grey, Highbelt, Highpark, Lineback, Mottled, Pied, Red, Red and White, Red Roan, Riggit, Roan, Silver, Solid Black, Solid Red, Solid White, Speckled, Spotted, White, White Faced, Yellow