Gochona entelarada asturleonesa

The Gochona entellarada asturleonesa is a Spanish vaccine breed native to the border between Asturias and Leon, of environmental type and mountain, because it is located in the Picos de Europa.

This breed is a race with a variable coat from blond to retinto, and weighs between 400 and 500 kilos in males or bulls. It may have cardinal spots on the belly, and on the ends and ends. Concave profile. It is used for the production of lean meat, because it greases with difficulty, due to its rustic nature.

At present it has serious conservation problems. The breed is a residue of the clash of European brown and European chestnut on the peninsula produced by the extinct Leon butter and the Asturian breed, in particular with the Asturiana variety of the mountain. Like its predecessors, its usefulness as a rustic animal was work, and that is why it is in decline, with a census of about 150 in Leon, and about 70 in Asturias. Governments in both provinces have collaborated on slowly recovering breed protection programs.

: Ruminants and monogastric races. CenSYRA, León.

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