Vianesa

The vianesa is a bovine race Spanish.

Origin

It is resulting from the old crossing of the fair and red branch indigenous and the fawn-coloured branch of the brown branch, at the time of its arrival with the Arab at the 7th century. It is high in Galicia. The population is very weak with less than 500 individuals, including 220 female and 75 males. It profits from a programme of safeguarding of its genetic inheritance. The herd book was open in 1990 and the population is reproduced in pure race to maintain manpower.

Morphology

It wears a fawn-coloured dress, with the darker neck. The dress of the males is darker. The mucous membranes are dark, and the black boor is haloed of a clear band. The horns are short, clear with black point and in the form of half lune.
Elle is of intermediate size. The cows measure 130 cm with the garrot for a weight of 550-600 kg. The bulls measure 135-140 cm for 850-920 kg.

Aptitudes

It is an old race with to do everything (traction, meat, milk) reconverted in nursing race. The cow is good mother, and its rich milk allows an excellent growth of calf.
Elle is high in extensive semi pastoral system, with extensive, with the winter in satbulation at the hay, and the remainder of the year in the open air integral on poor pastures and broussailleuses zones. It is well adapted to the hard mountain climate of its cattle-breeding area. It has the assets to become a race nursing in crossing with races bouchères, when manpower allow it.

External bonds

(be) Fiche of the race vianesa

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