Gelbvieh calves in front of western Montana's Bitterroot Range. Calves Number 56 and 12 are posing out of curiosity and telling us life here today is good. What are Gelbvieh? They're a European breed introduced to the USA in the early 1970s through imports from Austria.
Over there, Gelbvieh were triple purpose bovines, bred for meat, milk, and yoked to the plow or wagon. Origins are thought to be from the Red Bavarian, the Swiss Brown, and the red and white Simmental. They became known as the German Yellow. Quite the "colorful" background, wouldn't you say?
In the early 1980s, Gelbvieh bulls and Brahman cows produced the Gelbray breed for semi-tropical environments.
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