La Bruna Italiana

In Italy the "razza bruna " is bred strain of Italian Brown Swiss breed, which is derived from the introduction of subjects including Swiss, Austrian and Bavarian, which adapted to our environment and crossed with American Brown Swiss strain (It was about eight animals from the canton of Schwyz: a bull (recorded as William Tell 1) and 6 females (recorded as one Zurich, Lucerne 2, Gretchen 3, 4 Brinlie, Lissa 5, 6 Christine,Geneva 7) plus another bull (Albert Tell 2) and another female from other cantons.
Appeared in Italy since the sixteenth century was called "Bruna Alpina' Initially with triple attitude, then dual and finally specializes milk to prevent resizing(with crosses with Brown Swiss from the United States).
In general, the greater number of herds was located in areas particularly disadvantaged of mountains and hills.
This breed appeared in Lombardy in 1850 but with the progress of agricultural transformation in Central and Southern, the Brown, in a few decades, spreads in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, in Abruzzo,in Molise, in Campania, Apulia, Basilicata and Calabria ,in supporting and replacing local breeds and finding considerable scope for expansion.
The Brown Swiss in half of the nineteenth century presents a size much smaller than that reached at the end of the century and a much darker colour.
In 1957 was founded the National Association of Brown Swiss Breeders ( ANARB) and today the name is no longer Alpine Brown, but only Brown.
In Italy in the early 70s took off the " Brown Swiss experiment " 'with the introduction of brown swiss bulls .Today, however, thanks to the improved attitude to milk, also farms of some importance using the "new" strain of Italian Brown.

Difference betwen other races:

In this space I would like to point out the differences in the history of the different races and their spread or find points in common.For example, The Friesian is suited for breeding from the very beginning of its exploitation while the brown swiss thanks to its strong limbs was also used in inaccessible areas.The import of this cow in Italy is posthumously (1929) compared to that of the Alpine Brown as for crossbreeding occurred in america and find themselves having to compete in the '50s and the Friesian replace the Alpine Brown. If we talk about red spotted, however, as the Alpine Brown had a triple attitude and anch it used in inaccessible areas we can find diffenze during the wars in fact,if the Alpine Brown remained the favorite cow, heads of red piebald had a sharp decline resulting in a reduction of its spread still observable today.Differences are more pronounced in the confrontation in the race jersey which was used without crossings for its particular vocation to milk production by offering a higher quality in products and its small size does not allow an adequate adaption in any environment. The Charolais, however, initially shared with the brown swiss l 'attitude for meat production and work subsequently have specialized in different attitudes despite the farmers had always preferred the Charolais for its size that could be used to work in the fields. I hope this article has given explanations of the historical differences.


Glossario

Attitude = that for which that cow specializes example aptitude for meat production, labor, milk.(attitudine)
Crossing = crossing cows with good genes to increase production in offspring .(incrocio)
Breed =groups divided according to their characteristics such as color, size, attitude ...(razza)

Edited by Fabio Kukki - 7/1/2015, 12:33