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Romagnola cattle are ivory-white, tending to grey on the foreparts, particularly in bulls; the skin and natural openings are black. The colour of the coat varies with the season, and is darker in winter. The horns are light, lyre-shaped in cows, half-moon-shaped in bulls; they are slate-grey in young
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Calves weigh 40–45 kilograms (90–100 lb) at birth, and are normally sent to slaughter at 16–18 months, at a weight of 650–700 kilograms (1400–1500 lb); yield is 62–63%. The meat is considered to be of high quality and carries a registered mark of quality. With the
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Numbers in Italy have fallen sharply since the Second World War. In 1952 there were 450,000 head; this fell to 250,000 in 1965, to 120,000 in 1977 and to 45,000 in 1980. At the end of 2013 the total number recorded for the breed in Italy was 13,054.
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group of grey cattle. Romagnola cattle were used principally as draught beasts in the past; since the mechanisation of agriculture in the middle of the twentieth century they have been bred primarily for
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animals, becoming pale at the base and dark at the tip with maturity. As with all
Podolic cattle, the calves are born wheat-coloured but become white at about three months.
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461:(in Italian). Conference paper, Convegno "Dal pascolo alla tavola: sicurezza e qualità dei prodotti podolici", Zungoli (AV), 29 October 2011. Accessed May 2014.
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Romagnola was in the past primarily a draught breed, though raised also for meat; limited dairy use is also documented. In the years before and after the
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considered in Italy to be wholly or partly of
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