Traits
Excellent Feed Efficiency
Adaptability
High Carcass Yield
Double-Muscled
Ease of Birth
Good Milk Producing Females
Fertile and Hard Working Bulls
Hard Black Feet
Originally used for their dual purose of high quality beef and for their large production of milk in France, Parthenais are a very adaptable breed to extreme conditions. They are known as being the leanest beef cattle, even lower in cholesterol than chicken. The Parthenais bulls are extremely fertile and are hard strenuous workers. The females are known to have ease in calving due to their light bone structure with 94% of fullbloods needing no birthing assistance.
Parthenais are "double-muscled", meaning that high levels of lean muscle can develop without being limited by the usual biological systems. They convert feed to weight very efficiently, without needing extremely high feeding volumes. This is one of the reasons they are said to have a high adapability to all terrains and weather conditions.
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Parthenais Cattle
Breed Characteristics
Coloration: The breed coloring is reddish buckskin color to dark brown with areas of black pigmentation. Around the neck, eyes, ears and jaw are brown to black. They appear to have on mascara. The face and muzzle tend to be lighter with the nose and hoofs are black. The horns are crescent shaped.
Weight: Mature Parthenais females should average 1600 lbs and mature males 2600 lbs. Birth weight of a Bull is 97 lbs whereas a heifer's weight averages 90 lbs.
Body characteristics: Known for their high carcase yeild, Parthenais are double muscled and well framed with full bloods cutting out at 77% of a good tasting lean meat as opposed to a purebred cutting out at 67% They are known to have only about 8.8% of fat in the carcase with over 41% of their meat being a high quality cut.
Calving characteristics: With their strong maternal nature, female Parthenais have a light bone structure giving them an ease for birthing calves. They produce more than adequate milk for growing the calf.
Growth characteristics: Due to the excellance of milk produce by the dame, the growth of the calf is noteworthy.
Adaptability: Being a double muscle breed they convert there food to muscle without having to have the volume of food. They also have a hard black foot giving them strudiness in different types of terrain.