Limiana
The Limiana or i=no is a Spanish list of [cattle breeds|breed] of domestic cattle. It is named for the comarca of A Limia, in the southern part of the Province of Ourense, in Galicia in north-west Spain. It is the largest of the cattle breeds of Galicia.
It is one of the five Galician breeds that together make up the Morena Gallega grouping of chestnut-coloured cattle, the others being the Cachena, the Caldelana, the Frieiresa and the Vianesa, which with the Alistana-Sanabresa and the Sayaguesa of Castile and León and the extinct Verinesa also form the broader Morenas del Noroeste grouping of similar cattle breeds.
History
The total population reported for 1994 was 60 animals, 46 breeding cows and 14 bulls. At the end of 2023 the total population numbered head, with females and 288 males; the breeding stock consisted of cows and 52 active bulls.Characteristics
The Limiá is the largest of the cattle breeds of Galicia: heights at the withers are in the range for cows, with an average of, and for bulls, with an average of ; average body weights are about and respectively. The coat is chestnut-coloured, darker on the forward third of the animal, the lower legs and the tip of the tail; there is a pale ring round the mouth. The eyelids and mucosae are black.Use
This was in the past a triple-purpose breed, reared for draught work, for milk and for meat. In the twenty-first century it is dual-purpose animal, reared for meat and draught – even if its draught use has been almost entirely abandoned.In meat production, calves are commonly sold for slaughter as yearlings, at weights of for heifer calves and for bullocks.