Simmental (bovine race)

The simmental is a Race Bovin E Swiss. ---- |----- |----- | colspan=2 align=" center" | |----- |----- ! bgcolor=" pink" colspan=" 2" | Name binominal Boss taurus
or Boss primigenius taurus,
or Boss primigenius F. taurus
Linnaeus, 1758 |----- |----- | Origin | Switzerland, Canton of Were worth |----- | Diffusion | World |----- | Size | Large |----- | Dress | Red magpie |----- | Use | Mixed |----- |}

Origin

The simmental is originating in the Bernese Oberland. It belongs to the branch Pie red of the mountains.
Son genealogical Livre was created in 1806, in the Canton of Bern. These cows were then very required for their rapid growth, their excellent level of dairy production and cheese-making, and their quality of animals of force. It is the alpine race of the Western Suisse. Its dairy production was improved during the Années 1960, by the introduction of seed of Red holstein, of MRY and Montbéliarde.
Elles contributed to the creation of other races: in France the Montbéliarde, in Italy the Razzeta d' Oropa or in Germany the Fleckvieh. The cows of origin simmental would be from 40 to 60 million throughout the world. Certain texts make exporting state towards Italy as of XVe century. During the XIXe century, it was introduced into all Eastern Europe, to Russia of the tsars. South America followed as of the years 1920.

It is only into 1967 that the simmental decided to go to the United States.

Morphology

It wears a red black and white dress more or less dark, energy of wheat to the dark red. The distribution includes/understands dominant a red, with the head and the members mainly white. Its horns white with slightly dark ends, established high and are raised. Its Muqueuse S is pink. It is strapping man: 1,40 meters with the garrot, equipped with a broad basin, good well developed thighs, planted on solid members. Its average weight is around 700 kg.
Le standard old corresponds to a mixed race with more or less pale, the muscular thighs and frankly mixed red dress.
Le standard modern corresponds to a red dress sharp, with thighs with the more angular forms and the very developed udder, génant sometimes a little walk.

Aptitudes

It is an old multi-purpose race: traction, milk and meat. It became mixed with the mechanization of the campaigns and tends to becoming increasingly dairy since the introduction of foreign seed. It gives an average production of about 5.100 kg of Lait by lactation. A core of impassioned guard the intact original race. In the long term, a separation of the herd books is not to exclude.
C' is the race of Alpage par excellence in Western Switzerland. It spends the winter to the cattle shed, then uses its qualities of good walker to use the richness of the pastures of altitude where it in the open air spends all the summer up to 2000 meters of altitude. This sytème gives a rich milk, suited to the manufacture of cheeses, of which most known are the Gruyere and the emmental. She is appreciated for her maternal qualities.
Aux the United States, it is used as mother with calves in crossing with races bouchères. The individuals are selected on their breadth and the capacity laitère is exclusively left with the fast catch of weight of calves.

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