The designation "Pinzgauer" drives from the "Pinzgau" district in the province of Salzburg, Austria, and appears for the first time in documents of the 1600's.
Pinzgauer as we know them today are the result of rigid performance and registry demands.
At the end of 1989, there were over 30,000 Fullblood and Purebred Pinzgauers in the United States, giving the cattlemen a world wide genetic base on which to build a Pinzgauer herd.
The Pinzgauer female is generally easy calving, with average birth weights of 85 pounds in heifer calves and 90 pounds for bull calves and a general range of 80 to 100 pounds.
Pinzgauer calves grazing with their dams with no additional feed maintain a WDA (weight per day of age) of over 2.5 - 2.9 pounds/day (1.13 - 1.31 kg/day) prior to weaning.
Pinzgauers are maternally strong, with characteristics complementary to terminal breeds.
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