Embryos and donors available Pustertaler breed
In collaboration with our company veterinarian we produce embryos exclusively in a natural way on the farm.
The donors are selected and raised by us from birth.
The mares or heifers selected based on breed requirements are subjected to the necessary gynecological and health checks before superovulation.
It is possible to agree, after contacting us, on possible donor pairings and available breeders.
CHARACTERISTICS
Pusteltaler Barà:
Originally from the Pusteria Valley, it is a dual-purpose breed that blends well with the characteristics of our territory.
Now present in a limited number of specimens, at the end of the 80s genetic studies were conducted in Germany to promote its repopulation.
In the early 2000s, genetic studies recognized the Piedmontese strain, which until then had not been recognized as a breed and was called “Barà” by breeders.
In 2005 the Barà Pustertaler breed was recognized by the AIA as a breed, and registered in the genealogical register of the APA of Turin and Cuneo.
The Pustertaler is a bovine breed originating from the Pusteria Valley in Trentino-Alto Adige and present in Italy, Germany and Austria, where it is called Pustertaler Schecken or Pustertaler Sprinzen[1]. Genetic studies carried out in 2001 have shown that the Piedmontese Barà breed is very similar, if not comparable, to the Pustertaler, and the two populations are therefore treated as a single breed by the Registry of Bovine Breeds, by the Italian Breeders' Association and by the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies.
The Pustertaler is particularly adapted to the mountain environment, and appreciated for its dual aptitude for milk and meat production. Being a rare breed and in danger of disappearing, it is protected throughout its territory of diffusion.
Pustertaler breed is native to the Pusteria Valley, and over time it has also spread to the neighboring valleys and the Isarco Valley. It belongs to the branch of the mountain pieds, descending according to some hypotheses from Austrian breeds such as the Pinzgauer crossed with red pieds or black pieds, or from crosses carried out over the centuries between native Alpine breeds and cattle brought by Bavarian, Slavic and Swiss settlers.
The characteristics and appearance of the Pustertaler were definitively consolidated in the first half of the nineteenth century.
After the Second World War, the Pustertaler experienced an inexorable decline linked to two aspects: on the one hand, the spread of increasingly specialized breeds, on the other, the new regulations introduced on animal reproduction, which led the breed almost to extinction.
After the Second World War, the Pustertaler experienced an inexorable decline linked to two aspects: on the one hand, the spread of increasingly specialized breeds, on the other, the new regulations introduced on animal reproduction, which led the breed almost to extinction.
The coat pigmentation features the so-called mulina line, a characteristic white line that extends from the neck to the perineum, continuing along the back and rump uninterruptedly and then continuing along the inner sides of the thighs and belly. The pigmented parts extend more or less markedly on the lateral parts of the animal: symmetrically along the flanks, especially at the level of the rib cage and with less regularity at the abdominal level, on the jaws and on the face; the muzzle, eyelids, eyebrows, ears, distal parts of the limbs and the tip of the horns can also be colored. The patchwork can be very small, with small spots similar to sprays (fiurinà or sfrisà in the local dialect) or larger with large spots until having an almost closed coat. The color can be black (more frequent) or red-brown.
