Maronesa

[uro]

Cow ( not really a young cow) with calf

Young bull

 

[chippie]

Thanks for sharing your pictures. The cow has interesting horns. What type of cattle are they and where are they from?

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[MO_cows]

That is a new one on me. They look like one of the splits in the Corriente family tree.

 

[Taurus]

Judging from the background in the pictures, I would say it's not in United States....but they looks like very interesting cattle with wicked horns!

 

[ga.prime]

Looks like Spain.

 

[slick4591]

Portugal

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[chippie]

Cool. Thanks slick4591.

 

[ohiosteve]

Thanks for sharing the pictures! very interesting for sure, If I had to guess I'd say possibly some Jersey influence in the cows. I like the roofs on the buildings. Is that what they call terra cotta?

 

[uro]

Thanks for all the reactions.

This type of cattle is correlated with some of the first types of cattle which did appeared in Iberia that with time did got extincted or changed. Only few remained alive until nowadays.
We just don´t know yet if they are a result of a local domestication event or a result of an early Neolithic import from another place.


Ohiosteve:

Yes, is terra cotta.
Physically, some Jersey cows retain their ancestor coat color and long skull, so that´s why there are some similarities. Some Lidia cows also resemble Maronesa or Jersey cows in some aspects.

 

[cow pollinater]

We have a big population of portugues dairymen here and I run across cattle like yours from time to time. Ours are a little different but pretty similar. It's neat to see them at home.

 

[uro]

Hi cow pollinater

If you can send me some pictures of that cattle, I really would love to see it.

Here it´s a young Maronesa bull:



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Young bull ( standing up).
Tall and weighing over 2.000 pounds.

 

[cow pollinater]

Those two look a little more like the ones I've seen. I haven't been around any for awhile as the two dairymen that I knew that had them both retired and moved off the dairies.
Another breed that is catching on here is the cao de fila??? I think it's called. The cowdogs. Portuguese cowdogs are starting to show up and a few guys are starting to mix them with border collies to toughen up the collie half. The purebred ones I've seen were pretty good dogs but pretty tough. :D

 

[uro]

Those two look a little more like the ones I've seen. I haven't been around any for awhile as the two dairymen that I knew that had them both retired and moved off the dairies.
Another breed that is catching on here is the cao de fila??? I think it's called. The cowdogs. Portuguese cowdogs are starting to show up and a few guys are starting to mix them with border collies to toughen up the collie half. The purebred ones I've seen were pretty good dogs but pretty tough. :D

Interesting that you knew people involved with this type of cattle.
Actually, the process of selection within the breed that we have been doing is very complex: we combine hundreds of aspects and then we try to find the individuals that suit this difficult selection criteria.

Maronesa actually is endangered because of the risk of contamination with other breeds.
For this specific case, crossbreeding with normal domestic breeds, is highly not recommended.
There are better breeds for crossbreeding, with the intention of improving the meat or milk production.
And very primitive rare cattle breeds should be preserved on it´s original form.

Yes, I know cão de fila.
Nice to know that they have been useful.

For Maronesa and other cattle breeds that I´ll present later on, we want to turn them useful for the world as well. However, their functions, won´t be the same as regular cattle.

 

[dun]

Why not returnthir use to draft and meat?

 

[uro]

Why not returnthir use to draft and meat?

They are used for draft ( very rarely) and meat ( exclusively).

What we are working is on the conservation of the primitive ecotype.
And we are opened to suggestions or even proposals.
The key point, is that the way things are going, they´ll get extinct.





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