Large Ramo

The large ramo is a bovine race Portuguese.

Origin

It belongs to the fair branch of the fair Rameau and red. It was brought by the Portuguese navigators to the the Azores where it was high in autarky, creating the race " ramo grande". Vis-a-vis the danger of disappearance of the race, a genealogical register was created in 1996. The safeguarding of this race in time that local genetic tank seems assured.

Morphology

It wears a dress wheat to deer. The male is darker on the level of the garrot and the neck, color brown-red. The horns are short.

Aptitudes

It is a race in the past used for its driving force. The cows gave a few liters of milk for family consumption. The castrated males gave oxen of work which one at the end of the lifetime fattened for their meat. This mode of breeding stopped with the mechanization of the archipelago. A time in lose speed, the race is in way to be started again like race bouchère. The selected animals give carcasses of good conformation to the lean and tasty meat.

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