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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

🇨🇭 Switzerland and 5 moreBraunvieh A large Alpine brown dairy breed from Switzerland, known for its strength and high milk yield.Taurine · Dairy · Rich milk

🇺🇸 United States and 3 moreBrown Swiss A medium-sized American dairy breed descended from the Alpine Braunvieh, kept for high milk yield and cheese-making.Composite · Dairy · Rich milk

🇦🇹 Austria and 5 moreFleckvieh A large Central European dual-purpose breed, red and white pied or solid red, kept for milk and beef.Composite · Dual-purpose · Docile

Photo credits on this page

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

Braunvieh: 4028mdk09, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Brown Swiss: No machine-readable author provided. Malcolm Morley~commonswiki assume, Public domain, source
Fleckvieh: Josef Moser, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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