Hungarian Grey

It was formerly accepted that it had arrived in the ninth century with the Magyars who came from the east, took the Carpathian Basin and settled there; this theory is not consistent with the archaeological record.[8]: 50 From the Middle Ages until the eighteenth century great numbers of grey cattle were raised extensively on the plains of Hungary.Many were driven on the hoof by hajduk for hundreds of kilometres westward to the markets of cities in western Europe to be slaughtered for beef.[7]: 11 [12]: 718  The trade was gravely disrupted by the Ottoman invasions, and for some time was also limited by a monopoly granted by the Imperial court to the Landverleger-Compagnia of Vienna in 1622.[14]: 1786 In the eighteenth century changing market conditions led to a substantial decline in this trade, and the cattle came to be used principally as draught animals, a purpose to which they were well suited.[19] The Hungarian Grey shares with indicine cattle some genetic characteristics relating to milk proteins including casein, and to amplified fragment length polymorphism marker haplotypes.
a group of long-horned grey-white cattle
In Hortobágy National Park , in the Puszta of Hortobágy in eastern Hungary
Gulyás herdsmen with Hungarian Grey cattle, lithograph by Sterio Károly [ hu ] (1821–1862)
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