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The Rhaetian Grey Cattle

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The Rhaetian Grey is a robust, adaptable and long-lived dual-purpose cattle. Due to its undemanding nature and its good roughage conversion, it is particularly suitable for the use of extensive pastures even in extreme mountainous areas, whereby the low weight and the relatively large claws of the animals protect the soil. With its calm character and its high vitality, the Rhaetian Grey cattle finds more and more friends. It is horned and has a wide range of shades of gray, from iron gray to silver gray and dark gray to grayish yellow. The small, light animals are frugal and adaptable. Breeders appreciate the good feed conversion, the fine-fibered meat and the optimal fat-meat ratio. The animals are used as suckler cows for calf fattening and milk production.


The small, undemanding Grays captivate their viewers with their beautiful heads and noble gray coat color. In Switzerland, the gray cattle gradually merged with the brown cattle population in the 1920s. The original, small and light Swiss Albula breed was reintroduced in our country in 1985 with the help of Pro Specie Rara and is now known as "Rhaetian Grey Cattle" (withers cows 116 - 123 cm; bulls 120 - 128 cm).

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