Friday, January 22, 2010

Paintings - Ancient Cow Park

Old paintings of a horned White Park cow. Note the depth of body, the well set udder, and the kindly nature of this quite attractive and contented representation of this ancient breed, and mainly look at those black tipped horns. Some old writings about this breed explain them as having black tipped horns in this very style, yet we don't see this trait consistently in modern animals posture the label Ancient White Park.

Within the White Park Cattle Society of the UK's own dogma and history of the breed they involuntarily provide historical evidence via this painting of the absolute close kinship of the polled and horned varieties of the ancient White Park type. Merely remove the horns and you have a tremendous example of what all breeders of polled British White cattle strive to have grazing in their pastures today.

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