The Bazadaise Breed Standard
| General Characteristics of the Bazadaise Breed |
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| Coat Colour |
| Bulls are grey-coloured, going from a very light grey to a dark, carbon-like grey particularly at head level and at the neck and withers. The coat is often mottled with darker marks. The belly always has a lighter shade than the rest. Females are lighter grey than males, sometimes with a slight wheat-like shade. At birth, calves have a wheat-like hair coat and only adopt the characteristic colour of the breed around the age of 3-4 months, sometimes even later. |
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| The Head |
| The head is wide, carried high, sweet and expressive with great eyes surrounded with a slightly pink-coloured aureola, with very light grey hair. Horns are strong and egg-shaped at the base, wax-yellow and then brown at the tip. They dip to form a crescent or else the tip goes up again. Muffle and muzzle are pink, a remarkable thing in this grey-coated breed. |
| The Body |
| The withers are especially strong in males The shoulder is muscular and oblique The ribs are round and wide The breast is wide and deep The pelvis is wide and slightly slanting The back is upright, wide and well checked The rump is very muscular, round-like, going very low down to the knuckle The carcass is slender, limbs are neat and slender The feet are small with strong, dark-coloured hoofs |
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| Males are 1.45m high at the withers and weigh 900 to 1,200 kg Females are 1.40 m at the withers and weigh 750 to 850 kg |
