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🇩🇪 The cattle breeds of Germany

14 breeds from Germany, best known first, across 18 towns, fairs and pastures.

Cattle town Fair or market Pasture Ranch country Sanctuary or reserve City

Cattle towns and fairs of Germany

Black Forest 2 Bavaria 1 East Frisia 1 Falkenthaler Rieselfelder 1 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1 Grubenfelder Leonie 1 Lippeaue 1 Murnau 1 Nesseaue 1 Soest 1 Werdenfels Country 1 Angeln Donnersberg Glan Kaiserslautern Meisenheim Quirnbach The Allgäu and the Viehscheid

🇵🇱 Poland and 5 moreAurochs The wild ancestor of all domestic cattle, extinct since 1627Wild · Long-horned

🇩🇪 Germany and 3 moreHeck A German type bred in the 1920s to recreate the extinct aurochsTaurine · Grazing · Cold-hardy

🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 4 moreGalloway A polled black beef breed from south-west Scotland with a thick double coatTaurine · Beef · Cold-hardy

🇩🇪 Germany and 1 moreMurnau-Werdenfels A long-lived brown dairy breed of the Bavarian uplands, milk and beefTaurine · Dairy · Long-lived

🇩🇪 Germany and 1 moreHinterwaldHinterwälder Rind A small Black Forest cow, white head and pied coat, kept for both milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Cold-hardy

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Heck: 4028mdk09, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Aurochs: Jaap Rouwenhorst (photograph) DFoidl (GIMP modifications), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Murnau-Werdenfels: Pippo-b, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Galloway: GerardM, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Hinterwald: -- Xocolatl 10:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC), Public domain, source

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