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Braunvieh means "brown cow" and the animals are coloured grey to brown with white ears and muzzle and have horns. These cattle have been maintained as a pure breed, while the modern Swiss Braunvieh have been crossed with Brown Swiss. They have contributed to the American Brown Swiss breed.
The Braunvieh is a uniform brown or grey-brown in color; the nose is black and encircled by a pale ring. The horns are pale with dark points. Cows weigh some 650–700 kg, with a height at the withers in the range 140–152 cm; [15]: 22 bulls weigh on average 1050 kg, with an average height of 152 cm. [1]
The American Brown Swiss descends from a total of 167 imported parent animals. [2]: 142 A breed society, the Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders' Association, was formed in 1880; the first herd-book dates from 1889. By the end of the century breeding was directed towards dairy qualities; a production register for cows was opened in 1911.
The brown cows are curious, calm, and fairly quiet, which makes them wonderful farm animals to simply hang out with.
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The British White is a British breed of beef cattle. ... It is a medium-sized breed, with cows usually weighing 550–700 kg and bulls 900–1100 kg. [8]
An extreme pale form of the colour-sided pattern is the colour-pointed or 'white park' pattern, seen for example in the White Park, the British White and in some Irish Moiled, where the darker colour is restricted to the ears, nose and feet, leaving most of the animal white. [2]: 127
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