- Minhota cattle
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Minhota is a cattle breed from Portugal.
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Description
CORPULANCE - Median. SKELETON - Strong and well covered with muscles. SKIN - Thick, inelastic, covered with hair straight, short, thick and rough. COAT - More or less reddish, marbled with natural openings. HEAD - A bit long under the eyes, usually more right than on the convex bevel, wide forehead and slightly convex. CORNER - Medium size, elliptical section, white, flushed with the tips, going out almost horizontally to the sides, turning from a little behind, then turned forward and with the tips up and turned inside out at the last third of its length. BROW - Little salient. SCREWDRIVER PALBEBRAL - Slightly oblique. EYES - Surface expression and vaguely sad. EARS - High insertion, regular size and labeled on the inside with thick hair and long. FACES - Long and triangular. CHAMFER - usually straight, long, welded to the nose in circular dome. MUZZLE - Short and slightly convex on the outer edges. NECK - Short, thick, slightly drooping, some dewlap, slightly on top, but rather on the breastplate; WITHERS - Slightly protruding. RIBCAGE - high, but slightly arched. BACK - Almost straight and long. CHEST - Largo. SHOULDERS - Broad and muscular. BELLY - A little bulky. CROUP - High, the protruding hips and muscular. BUTTOCKS - Almost straight and regularly developed. TAIL - Long, set high and regularly hairy. UDDER - Regularly shaped and developed, PROFILE - Rectilinear the convex MEMBERS - Tall, slightly protruding from joints, terminated by large claws and strong.
Characteristics
Extension
The breed is almost exclusive to northern Portugal in Viana do Castelo district in Minho.
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