Cattle breeds of Europe
Holstein Friesian, Jersey, Angus, Hereford, Charolais, Simmental, Highland and Chianina, and hundreds of local breeds. 104 breeds on EveryCow so far.
Cattle towns, fairs and pastures
Alentejo 2Black Forest 2Brittany 2Galloway 2Hortobágy National Park 2Piedmont 2Tyrol 2Yorkshire 2Abondance 1Albany 1Albera Massif 1Alt Empordà 1Altopiano di Asiago 1Aosta 1Aosta Valley 1Aquitaine 1Arezzo 1Argelès 1Auvergne 1Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 1Ayrshire 1Bács-Kiskun 1Bagnères-de-Bigorre 1Baixa Limia-Serra do Xurés 1Balearic Islands 1Basse-Normandie 1Bavaria 1Bazas 1Beaufortain 1Beremytske Nature Park 1
Products of the region
Isigny butter (Normandy cultured butter)Clotted creamButtermilkSkyrFilmjölkViiliCrème fraîcheSmetanaQuarkRyazhenka
Days
St Anthony's Day and the blessing of animalsImbolc and St Brigid's DayBeltane and the cattle firesFête des GardiansSt Wendelin's DaySamhain and the coming down of the herdsMartinmasSt Modestos's Day
Countries
🇦🇱 Albania 1🇦🇹 Austria 10🇧🇪 Belgium 3🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1🇭🇷 Croatia 4🇨🇿 Czech Republic 2🇪🇪 Estonia 2🇫🇮 Finland 4🇫🇷 France 20🇩🇪 Germany 17🇬🇷 Greece🇭🇺 Hungary 5🇮🇸 Iceland 1🇮🇪 Ireland 6🇮🇹 Italy 16🇽🇰 Kosovo 1🇱🇻 Latvia 2🇱🇹 Lithuania 2🇲🇪 Montenegro 1🇳🇱 Netherlands 7🇳🇴 Norway 2🇵🇱 Poland 3🇵🇹 Portugal 6🇷🇴 Romania 2🇷🇺 Russia 6🇷🇸 Serbia 3🇸🇮 Slovenia 3🇪🇸 Spain 9🇸🇪 Sweden 6🇨🇭 Switzerland 7🇺🇦 Ukraine 4🇬🇧 United Kingdom 18
🇮🇹 ItalyAosta Black PiedValdostana Pezzata Nera
A short-horned, black-pied dual-purpose breed from the Aosta Valley in ItalyTaurine · Dual-purpose · Thrifty foragers
🇸🇪 SwedenSwedish Red PolledRödkulla
A hornless red Swedish cow kept for milk and meat, once reduced to about 20 animals.Taurine · Dual-purpose · Polled
🇮🇹 Italy and 3 morePustertaler SprinzenPustertaler Schecken
Rare colour-sided Alpine cattle from South Tyrol: white with brown or black flank patchesTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇫🇮 FinlandWestern Finncattle
A red, hornless dual-purpose breed from western Finland, kept for milk and beefTaurine · Dairy · Polled
🇦🇹 Austria and 1 moreTyrol GreyTiroler Grauvieh
An alpine dual-purpose breed of the Tyrol, milked and fattenedTaurine · Dual-purpose · Cold-hardy
🇩🇪 Germany and 1 moreMurnau-Werdenfels
A long-lived brown dairy breed of the Bavarian uplands, milk and beefTaurine · Dairy · Long-lived
🇦🇹 AustriaTux-ZillertalTux-Zillertaler
A stocky Alpine breed from Tirol, black or red, once bred for cow-fighting contests.Taurine · Beef · Spirited
🇺🇦 UkraineBrown Carpathianбура карпатська
A brown dual-purpose breed from the Trans-Carpathian region of UkraineTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇳🇴 NorwayTelemarkTelemarkfe
A small red dairy breed from Telemark in Norway, with a white cross on the backTaurine · Dairy
🇸🇪 SwedenBohuskulla
A rare, hornless Swedish mountain breed, usually black or brown and often colour-sidedTaurine · Heritage · Quick and strong
🇮🇪 IrelandIrish MoiledBó Maol
A rare hornless Irish breed, red with a white back stripe, used for milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Polled
🇵🇹 PortugalRamo GrandeRaça Bovina Ramo Grande
A large red-brown cattle breed from Terceira in the Azores, once used for work and milkTaurine · Triple-purpose · Thrifty foragers
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreSouth Devon
Huge pale-red beef cattle from Devon and Cornwall, once milked and worked as oxenTaurine · Beef
🇫🇷 FranceCorse
A small tan cow from Corsica, once the island's plough ox, now reared free-range for beefTaurine · Beef · Thrifty foragers
🇪🇸 SpainPajuna
An endangered Andalusian breed, dark bulls and red-brown cows, once used for draught workTaurine · Draught · Cold-hardy
🇫🇷 FranceArmoricaine
A red and white Breton cow kept for milk and meat, once down to forty headTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇩🇪 GermanyVorderwaldVorderwälder Rind
Black Forest breed with a white face and limbs, coloured patches, forward-curving hornsTaurine · Long-lived
🇪🇸 Spain and 1 moreAlbera
A small cold-hardy breed of the Albera Massif, black or pale, used to clear scrubTaurine · Beef · Cold-hardy
🇦🇹 AustriaCarinthian BlondviehKärntner Blondvieh
An old triple-purpose breed from Carinthia in Austria, white or light yellowTaurine · Triple-purpose
🇫🇷 FranceBretonne Pie Noir
A small pied black and white dairy cow from Brittany, once half a million strongTaurine · Dairy · Thrifty foragers
🇩🇪 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
🇪🇸 SpainMonchinaBehi montxina
A small, horned mountain beef breed from Cantabria and the Basque Country of SpainTaurine · Beef
🇫🇷 France and 4 moreBazadaiseVasadés (Gascon)
A very large grey beef breed from Bazas in south-west France, once a timber-hauling oxTaurine · Beef · Marbled beef
🇳🇴 NorwayDølafe
A rare, light-boned and horned Norwegian cow whose coat runs from dark brown to white.Taurine · Heritage
🇩🇪 GermanyHarzer Rotvieh
A solid red upland breed from the Harz, once kept for milk, beef and draught workTaurine · Dairy · Cold-hardy
🇦🇹 Austria and 1 moreMurbodenMurbodner Rind
An Austrian mountain breed kept for milk, meat and draught workTaurine · Dairy
🇫🇮 FinlandEastern Finncattleitäsuomenkarja
A dual-purpose Finncattle landrace from eastern Finland, also called kyyttöTaurine · Dairy
🇫🇮 FinlandNorthern Finncattle
A polled white landrace from Finland, kept for both milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Polled
🇬🇧 United KingdomChillingham
A small white breed with red ears, living untamed in a Northumberland parkTaurine · Heritage · Spirited
🇩🇪 GermanyRotes Höhenvieh
A red upland breed from Germany's Central Uplands, rebuilt in 1985 from a handful of cowsTaurine · Beef
🇮🇹 ItalyBianca Modenese
A large white dairy and beef breed from the Po Valley of northern ItalyTaurine · Dual-purpose · Docile
🇬🇧 United KingdomAlderney
An extinct small dairy breed from the Channel Islands, dun or fawn and short-hornedTaurine · Dairy · Rich milk
🇺🇦 Ukraine and 5 morePodolian cattle
A group of grey, upright-horned steppe cattle breeds of EuropeTaurine · Long-horned
🇮🇹 ItalyRendena
A dual-purpose Alpine breed from the Val Rendena in Trentino, chestnut to near-black.Taurine · Dual-purpose
🇫🇷 FranceMirandaise
A large, heat-tolerant draught breed from the Gers, now raised for vealTaurine · Draught · Heat-tolerant
🇫🇷 FranceLourdaiseLordés
A rare white Pyrenean breed from near Lourdes, once milk, meat and draught in oneTaurine · Beef
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreBeef Shorthorn
A British beef line, split from the dual-purpose Shorthorn in 1958Taurine · Beef
🇫🇷 FranceFrench Simmental
A large French dairy breed, red pied with a white head, milked for comtéTaurine · Dairy
🇪🇸 SpainVianesa
A dark brown beef breed from Galicia, kept in small herdsTaurine · Beef
🇪🇪 EstoniaEstonian RedEesti punane veis
A red-coated dairy breed from Estonia, formed from local cows and imported red stockTaurine · Dairy
🇵🇹 PortugalMinhota
A tall beef breed from Minho in northern Portugal, once also worked and milked.Taurine · Beef
🇫🇮 FinlandFinncattle
Small, hornless Finnish dairy cattle in three types: red, white and red-and-whiteTaurine · Dairy · Polled
🇸🇪 SwedenSwedish PolledSvensk Kullig Boskap
A hornless red dairy cow from Sweden, formed in 1937 from the Rödkulla and Fjäll breedsTaurine · Dairy · Polled
🇬🇧 United KingdomVaynolFaenol
A rare Welsh park breed, white with black points or all blackTaurine · Beef · Thrifty foragers
🇮🇹 ItalyGarfagnina
A horned, brindled grey dual-purpose breed from TuscanyTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇮🇹 ItalyPezzata Rossa d'Oropa
A red-pied, dual-purpose breed from Piedmont's Vercelli and Biella provinces, ItalyTaurine · Dual-purpose
🇸🇮 SloveniaCikaCikasto govedo
A small red-brown dairy breed from Slovenia's alpine valleys, with a white line along the backTaurine · Dairy · Thrifty foragers
🇩🇪 GermanyGerman AngusDeutsch Angus
A polled German beef breed, black, brown or red, from Aberdeen Angus crossesTaurine · Beef · Docile
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Swedish Red Polled: Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tux-Zillertal: Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Tyrol Grey: Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Telemark: Torstein Frogner, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Finncattle: Eero Järnefelt, Public domain, source
- Bohuskulla: Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Western Finncattle: MPorciusCato (cropped by Pitke ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rotes Höhenvieh: Martin Lindner, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pezzata Rossa d'Oropa: CosyCobra, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Aosta Black Pied: Lohen11, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Irish Moiled: No machine-readable author provided. Malcolm Morley~commonswiki assume, Public domain, source
- Ramo Grande: Carlos Luis M C da Cruz, Public domain, source
- Bazadaise: The original uploader was Cyrille BERNIZET at French Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- South Devon: No machine-readable author provided. Malcolm Morley~commonswiki assume, Public domain, source
- Murnau-Werdenfels: Pippo-b, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Corse: luiginter, CC BY 2.0, source
- Pajuna: DFoidl, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Armoricaine: Yannig.coulomb, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vorderwald: Flominator, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bianca Modenese: Superspin81, Public domain, source
- Albera: Tylwyth Eldar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Carinthian Blondvieh: Mefusbren69, Public domain, source
- Bretonne Pie Noir: Tsaag Valren, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rendena: User:Rendena, CC0, source
- Hinterwald: -- Xocolatl 10:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC), Public domain, source
- Lourdaise: Darreenvt, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Beef Shorthorn: Robert Scarth, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- French Simmental: Grimlock, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vianesa: Ocarteiro, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Monchina: Valledemena, Public domain, source
- Dølafe: Vegard Aukrust, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Harzer Rotvieh: Karen Alge, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Eastern Finncattle: Sini Merikallio, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Northern Finncattle: Tuomo Hämäläinen aka. Squirrel, Public domain, source
- Chillingham: C Michael Hogan, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Mirandaise: PANDA 81, CC0, source
- Minhota: Figueiredo, Pedro, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Estonian Red: Sillerkiil, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Vaynol: Claire.cojean.05, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Garfagnina: Mael Beau, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cika: romanm ( talk ), Public domain, source
- Murboden: Marion Schneider & Christoph Aistleitner, Public domain, source
- German Angus: Bernd.K, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Alderney: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, source