Béarnais
(transboundary/brand name)

(most common name):
• Béarnaise
(local/other name):
• Basco-Béarnaise
• Blonde des Pyrénées
• La race Béarnaise
• La race des Pyrénées-Occidentales

The Béarnais has large, wide lyre-shaped horns.

The Béarnais is an ancient strain of the Pyrenean Blond (Blonde des Pyrénées in French) that was not absorbed by the Blonde d’Aquitaine.

This page was last updated on: 2023-05-14

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