What is particularly interesting about this herd is that Taurus cattle individuals from the Lippeaue and are bred to, among usual Heck cattle, Heck cattle from the Wörth/Steinberg line, which are noticeable for their aurochs-like horn dimensions and sometimes also curvature. That means the alleles for large body size and longer legs and snouts as well as aurochs-like horn curvature (coming from Taurus cattle) and aurochs-like horn dimensions (coming from the Wörth/Steinberg Heck cattle), are mixed in one pool. That is a pretty good potential that needs stringent selection in order to produce good results.
Here you have some of the individuals.
A bull that is definitely from the Wörth/Steinberg line can be found here.
Some cows are here.
A rather "classic" Heck bull is found here.
And a Taurus bull most likely from the Lippeaue can be found here.
I suspect that this Taurus bull is 42 632 (down below a photo in young years), which I saw in the Lippeaue as a bull calf in 2013.
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