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Mirandesa cattle
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Mirandesa cattle

Place of Origin Portugal
Origin The Mirandesa is the most widely distributed native breed in Portugal. Even in late 1970's these animals were still being used to pull fishing boats from the water.
Purpose They are a draft (work) breed which is also used for meat production.
Appearance Head: wide neck, raised and prominent. Save remarkably thick and long, covering the base of the sticks of colour and always a redhead. Ears lined with long and abundant red hair. Source sub-concave, eyes touched. Head below eyes, short, broad and dry, right nasal bone and muzzle very short, black and superiorly bordered by a broad fringe of hair always white. Neck: Short, thick with hook, at least in the bulls, soon falls under his lower lip and comes up to the knees, including overhangs. Trunk: round side. Withers low. Ridge right, with red hair or white stripe. Rounded rump. Raised tail, short and well supplied. Mammary system, developed and well set, with well-implanted teats of moderate size. The milk production often exceeds the intake capacity of calves during the first months of life but these run out in the following months until weaning. End and uprightness: short and slender members below the knee and hock; the right hind and forelegs knees deflected inward. Thigh convex. Colour: Chestnut Retinta the bull, more or less dark brown, with clusters of pigmented centrifugal tendency in bulls and cows. Format: animals are harmonious, lively but docile temperament, large size and compact form, the respiratory tract (mainly the girth instead of waist circumference).
Horns They have large horns which grow outward and bend down and then forward, with the points upward.
Cows Average Weight 550 kg (1,213 lbs.)
Bulls Average Weight 900 kg (2,000 lbs.)
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