Podolica

Podolica
a grey cow with wheat-coloured calf
Cow and calf
a dark grey bullock with white-ringed muzzle
Bullock in Basilicata
Conservation status
Country of originItaly
Distribution
StandardANABIC
Usetriple-purpose: draught, beef, milk
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    800 kg[3]
  • Female:
    650 kg[3]
Height
  • Male:
    150 cm[3]
  • Female:
    145 cm[3]
Skin colourblack
Coatgrey, black switch
Horn statushorned
  • Cattle
  • Bos (primigenius) taurus

The Podolica is an Italian breed of domestic cattle.[4] It belongs to the Podolic group of grey cattle. It is raised in the southern Italian regions of Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise and Puglia.[5] It was formerly distributed throughout most of mainland Italy and as far as Istria,[6] now part of Croatia, and where it is now regarded as a separate breed, the Istrian or Boškarin.[7] The Podolica was in the past bred principally as a draught animal; with the mechanisation of agriculture following the Second World War, demand for draught oxen disappeared, and the Podolica is now raised for meat and – to a lesser extent – for milk.[6]

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