GENERAL APPEARANCE (style and
quality): Tall, rangy and graceful, upstanding and alert
with presence, having a smoothly blended body exhibiting
pronounced triple dairy wedge shape, fine but not inclined
to weakness. Does feminine, bucks obviously masculine in
appearance.
HEAD (skull, eyes, mouth,
nostrils): Head long with strong square muzzle, facial line
dished or straight, polled or neatly disbudded. Eyes set
well apart, full and bright. Ears erect and pointing
slightly forward.
NECK: Blending smoothly into
shoulders, with or without tassels. Does long and fine.
Bucks fine and strong, not coarse.
BACKLINE: Back strong,
straight and horizontal or rising slightly to the hips.
FOREQUARTERS: Withers fine
and high, blending firmly into shoulders. Chest full between
the forelegs, deep in bucks, fairly deep in does.
BODY: (barrel): Abdomen well
rounded, large, deep and wedge shaped. Of proportionate
length and depth (to height).
HINDQUARTERS: Gradual slope
from hips to tail, good width between hips and thurls. Rump
long and flat, pin bones wide and prominent.
LEGS (hooves): Long, strong
oval boned legs but not coarse or heavy, Front legs straight
and parallel from front and side. Hind legs straight and
parallel viewed from rear, hocks slightly bent when seen
from the side, pasterns fairly short and strong. Hooves
sound and well- shaped.
UDDER: Back attachment high
and broad, fore attachment carried well forward and blending
smoothly to abdomen, not pendulous or unduly divided,
showing good capacity. Skin colour tan to dark brown or grey
to black, and softly textured.
TESTICLES: Scrotum well
attached, relatively even and not divided or unduly
pendulous, carrying two testes.
TEATS (Two): Of adequate size
for ease of milking, well attached and distinct from the
udder. Set well apart, pointing slightly forward and down,
not outward.
RUDIMENTARY TEATS: Two set
wide apart slightly to the fore and side of the scrotum, of
good size but not overdeveloped, unless the buck is milking.
SIZE (height at withers):
Does 32 inches (83 centimetres), Bucks 37 inches (95
centimetres).
COAT: Short, fine and glossy,
may have a fine undercoat. Bucks may have a longer coat.
COLOUR: Any combination of
colours or any pattern form (Toggenburg and solid white
colour is a fault).
Supplementary Descriptions:
To assist with identified varieties.
Main Identified Varieties
Cou Blanc. White
forequarters, black hindquarters, black / grey markings on
head.
Cou Clair. Cream to tan or
grey forequarters, black hindquarters.
Cou Noir. Black forequarters,
white hindquarters.
Pied. Spotted or mottled.
Chamoisee. Cream to Brown
with black face, dorsal stripe, legs & hooves; sometimes has
a black “martingale” over the withers and down to the chest.
Two-tone Chamoisee. Light
forequarters with brown or grey hindquarters.
Sundgau. Black body colour
with white swiss markings, may have white to grey under the
belly. May also have white splash on side or forehead.
Broken. The term placed as a
prefix to the colour type of any colour being banded,
splashed, etc.
Skin Colour Including The Udder.
Cou Clair, Cou Blanc, Cou Noir, Pied:
tan to black.
Chamoisee: tan or dark brown
or black.
Sundgau: dark grey to black.
DIFFERING FROM IDEAL Horned.
Nose with slightly raised bridge. Uneven tassels, longer
fringe along backline and hindquarters.
FAULTS: Cow hocks. Steeply
sloping rump. Dropped pasterns. Roach back or sway back.
Size differing substantially from ideal. Uneven gait. Poor
feet. Splayed feet. Low set or pendulous ears. Weak or
narrow chest. Shallow body. Lack of dairy quality. Fleshy,
pendulous or unduly divided udder. Pocket in udder. Teats:
small, thin, large, bulbous, ill-defined or unbalanced. Lack
of milking capacity. Lack of masculinity in bucks. Divided,
uneven or unduly pendulous scrotum. Toggenburg and solid
white colour is undesirable.
DISQUALIFICATIONS: Parrot
mouth or obviously undershot jaw. Wry face. Udders which are
white/pink skinned. Double teats, double orifices.
Supernumerary teats. Intersex. Undescended testicles in
bucks or one testicle only.
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