Jutland (bovine race)

The jutland is a race of Danish Vache . In Danish, it names Jysk kvaeg or jysk kvieg .

Origin

It is originating in the Jutland. It belongs to the branch of the Races of the littoral of the North Sea. It is a cousin of the holstein. It goes down from a population known since the 17th century from black black and white cows or magpie gray. The herd book was open in 1881. With its creation, a dairy alternative and an alternative bouchère coexitaient. At the beginning of the 20th century, the selection was directed towards the dairy production, wanting to make to equivalent jutland Danish black magpie Dutchwoman. The color is directed égalemant towards the black magpie. Between 1903 and 1911, only 2 gray black and white bulls against 579 magpie blacks are registered. At the same time, the crossing with the black magpie of Holland is authorized, improving the dairy production. The last bulls of pure race are presented in 1955. The race takes then the name of black Pie of Denmark. The old race is then regarded as extinct. In the years 1980, some stockbreeders remained refractory with the introduction of Dutch blood allow to find some individuals presenting the type of the old race. In 1987, the committee of genetic resources decides to safeguard this original population. The interest of some impassioned stockbreeders makes it possible to start again the herd book. The bulls corresponding to the type are listed and their seed stored for safeguarding and artificial insemination. In 1996, one counted 120 cows and 16 bulls.

Morphology

It wears a black and white dress energy of gray-blue to the black. Its horns are short and in the shape of crescent.
C' is a race of intermediate size. The cow measures 132 cm with the garrot for 550 kg. The bull measures 145 cm for 1000 kg.

Aptitudes

It is mixed an in the past race then dairy, now classified bouchère. Its dairy production is not profitable compared to the races selected more intensively. She thus plays the part of nursing cow which nourishes its calf well. She would be certainly a good race in industrial crossing with bulls of race bouchère, but too weak manpower militates so that the whole of the young people are intended to increase the population.
La jutland owes also its survival with its character " folklorique" in the teaching farms.

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