Tyrolese Grey Cattle
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The Tyrolese Grey Cattle (German: Tiroler Grauvieh, Italian: Grigio Alpina) is a typical alpine cattle breed from Tyrol in Austria and Italy. It's a dual purpose breed with a very good milk and beef performance. The females are grown up with three years and reach a weight of 550 - 600 kg. They have a correct fundament and hard claws.
The Tyrolese Greys have a good forage instinct, a good feed conversion, are robust, longliving, and very fertile.
The milk has an excellent quality and is adequate either for the direct consumption or for the processing to high-quality products (cheese, butter, yogurt). Among the mountain cattle breeds in Italy the Tyrolese Greys has the best milk amount/milk quality (fat, protein) ratio and delivers a higher amount of contents for the processing to quality products. The above-average per cow was 2002 in the province of Bolzano-Bozen about 4,836 kg milk per annum, 3.78 % milk fat content, and 3.38 % protein (8,491 control cows). When you evaluate the performance you have to allow for the middle body weight and the tough feeding and husbandry conditions in mountain regions.
The Tyrolese Grey cattle is a dual purpose breed for milk and beef and possesses an excellent mast ability and beef quality.
Breeding purpose is the advancement of milk and beef quantity and quality. Furthermore it is the purpose to conserve the typical functional attributes of the breed: middle body height, robust constitution, correct fundament, hard claws, hardiness, mountain pasture competence, good fertility, easy calving, udder quality and good milkability.
