Harz Red Mountain

Cattle

Harz Red mountain cattle are an unicoloured red cattle breed from the Harz in Germany. They serve the purposes of providing milk, beef and draught power. This cattle breed stemmed from the red cattle breeds of South and Middle Germany and traced probably back to unicoloured red Germanic-Celtic Cattle. Out of them a local cattle breed developed under the tough conditions of the Harz mountain range. In the 1950s this cattle breed was crossed with Danish Red bulls to increase milk yields. Later they crossed in Angeln cattle. Since 1980 the Harz Red cattle has been only a variety of the Angeln breed.

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