Murboden Cattle

The Murbodner beef is mainly grown in Carinthia, Styria, Lower Austria and in neighboring Slovenia.

The ancient race probably comes from the Celtic cattle and mixing the gray Slovenes beef. In the 18th century formed the Mürztaler beef, which penetrated into the Mur, the basis for breeding. It mingled with Bergschecken and Blondvieh. This created a new, muscular type.

The Murbodner beef cattle breed is a height; the color goes from blond to red fox flaxen or light gray.

Cows weigh between 550 and 650 kg bulls 900-1000 kg.

After the Second World War, the numbers fell heavily. Furthermore, the German race Gelbvieh bulls were bred. Only at the beginning of the 1980s, they began again to breed cattle Murbodner strengthened.