Two videos of Heck/Taurus cattle that might be of interest

While browsing youtube for interesting aurochs-related videos, I stumbled across a very short video of the small Taurus herd at Kleiberg (Lippeaue), which I covered here already. Not only is the bull quite cool, but what is really interesting is that this herd has two(?) Sayaguesa x Chianina cows, which you see in the video:

At 0:04 you see both the cows. They certainly will grow large and are long-legged slender, the small horns are not surprising. Their colour is very light, possible due to the Dun dilution of Chianina. I expect them to grow large, have an aurochs-like and swift body and also a good skull, the horns and colour probably will not be impressing but that's what is to be suspected in this combination and can be corrected in the next generations. With cows (and bulls) like these I hope that an aurochs-like bull with the size of 170 cm at the withers will finally be achieved, which would be the first one in breeding back in general.

The second video shows a herd of Heck cattle with a nice portray of their social behaviour - but you have to understand german for this video.

At first, the herd looks like normal Heck cattle with a very meagre resemblance to the aurochs. But you'll see a number of cows with aurochs-like large horns, and based on their looks I'd guess they are from either the Hellabrunn, Neanderthal or Wörth/Steinberg lineage, or perhaps a mix of those. One cow even has quite inwards-facing horns (f.e. 9:26), which is very rare in un-crossed Hecks.