Magyar szürke
(most common name)

(transboundary/brand name):
• Hungarian Grey
(local/other name):
• Magyar alföldi
local/other name (English):
• Crane-colored
• Grey Hungarian
• Hungarian Grey Steppe
• Hungarian Silver
• Hungarian Steppe
• White Hungarian
local/other name (German):
• Ungarisches Steppenrind

The Magyar szürke is a Podolian Grey Steppe cattle breed.

The Magyar szürke was once kept in herds that grazed on the steppe and were driven to market as far away as Vienna (Austria), Nürnberg (Germany) and Istanbul (Turkey). Records dating this type of trade can be found beginning in 1526.

Southwest Ukraine (formerly Podolia) is considered geographically to be one of the initial development areas for Grey Steppe cattle during the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.

Podolian cattle breeds have calves born with a fawn to reddish coat that turns grey or white after about five months of maturing.

This page was last updated on: 2023-05-18

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