Breed characteristics

The breed in general

Color:

The body of Fleckvieh cattle is muted, pied, speckled from dark red-brown to light yellow on white base color. Lower belly, feet, tail switch and head are mainly white.

Polled status:

Horns are light with yellow tips slightly bowed out and up. Moreover, they can be genetically polled.

Body:

The medium-sized to framy animals have a long, wide and deep body with dry, sufficiently strong feet and legs and firm hooves. The animals have very good muscularity on all important body parts.

Production traits:

The animals are calm, well-tempered and are especially suitable for grazing due to high weight gains, consistent, trouble-free calving and best maternal abilities. Calves have good growth vitality and high weaning weights. Fleckvieh cattle have very good fertility, very high feed intake capacity during fattening, very good weight gains and distinct muscularity with low fatty degeneration of the carcase.