Animal husbandry is one of the occupations of the indigenous population of Western Siberia. Siberian Tatars have been engaged in it for a long time. They raised horses, cows, sheep and goats. They ate the products of their labor. The first Russian settlers adopted the traditions of animal husbandry from the Siberian Tatars. Cattle breeding was one of the occupations of the Siberian Cossacks.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, significant progress was made in buttermaking. In 1907, the Union of Siberian Butter-making Artels was established, headed first by A.I. Balakshin, then by his son A.A. Balakshin. In 1912, the Union united 320 artels. In 1909, 869,395 pounds of butter were exported from Kurgan County alone.
After the revolution and the Civil War, the livestock industry of the region suffered significant losses. The restoration of this industry was completed only in 1928. The butter industry has started working again.
During the Great Patriotic War, the number of cattle in the region decreased significantly – horses were given for the needs of the army, cows were slaughtered for meat. In 1955, the livestock breeding program of the Tyumen Region was adopted. In three years, about 5 thousand farms were built, the number of livestock increased. The collective farms bred horses, cows of Kostroma and Dutch breeds, simple and fine-fleeced sheep.