Parthenaise Cattle
Parthenaise Cattle traits
The hair colour is golden brown, with lighter eyes, muzzle and legs while the nose, hooves, and tail are black. Bulls weigh up to 1150 kg and stand about 145 cm tall. Mature cows weigh around 700 kg and stand about 135 cm tall.
- Attractive well muscled cattle
- Easier calving
- Fertile, hard working bulls
- Suits most systems
- Hard black feet
- Excellent terminal sire in commercial suckler and dairy herds
- Parthenaise sired females sought for suckler replacements
- High dressing %( >70%) and meat to bone ratio
- Superb eating quality beef
- Lower cholesterol than chicken
- Steaks cut from forequarters
- Top carcass value
The breed is large with a long body and muscular rump. Heavy farm work has shaped a strong animal. The coat is short haired beautiful wheat to light brownish colour bordered by grey. The muzzle, eyelids, eyelashes, ears and tuft at the end of the tail are black. Parthenaise thrives on all types of terrain and coming from western France where climatic conditions are not too dissimilar to Australian conditions where they are shown to cope very well and have very good disease resistance.
