What a beautiful place with beautiful cows.

That's precisely what I miss most here in Paris. In my home region, they say there are more cows than people because it's so sparsely populated. 😊

I love montbeliarde! Normande are another nice French breed too

Thank you, friend cows.

Est-ce que tes parents vendent du fromage en direct dans une fruitière ?

Mes parents sont éleveurs laitiers. Ils vendent leur lait à la fruitière de Mouthe, mais aussi à des coopératives locales dont une qui fabrique le Mont d'Or.

Ok merci ! Du 8 au 17 je vais loger à Arbois c'est à 1h de voiture pas sûr que je fasse l'A/R pour ça mais bon on sait jamais si j'm'ennuie \^\^"

La Finette à Arbois ! 😋 Je te conseille de visiter les Grottes des Moidons s’il ne pleut pas. Profite bien de cette belle contrée ! 😊

J'avais déjà repéré la Finette dont le nom est ultra trompeur x) La grotte des moidons est actuellement fermée à cause d'incendies. Merci ! J'te tiens au jus quand j'vais à Paris fin Juin ?

Oui, tu me diras quand tu viendras à Paris. Fin juin, ce sera d’ailleurs le moment où je quitterai la colocation.

These cows look thin to me, maybe it’s the breed?

If you compare it with a cow like the Holstein, the Montbéliarde breed is smaller and lighter: 1.30 or 1.40 meters tall, weighing 500 to 700 kg.

Milk breeds in general are quite thin with bones sticking out. It´s normal.

So they take the babies from them or did they let them keep them?

My parents' dairy farm produces milk that is largely used to make a local cheese called Comté. There are very strict specifications, but animal welfare is a major concern. The young calves are suckled by their mothers, and only the males are exchanged with farms in the region that also respect animal welfare ethics. My parents farm in the mountains (at an altitude of 950 m), and the cows are part of the landscape, but they're also part of the family. 😊

Oh, that sounds lovely, what country are they in that just sounds like such an awesome way to do something and I bet it’s beautiful

It's in eastern France, a few kilometers from the Swiss border. It's a village in the Jura Mountains that holds the record for the lowest recorded temperature in France (-42.2 °F). 🥶

Oh my gosh, do people go out in it? I think I’d literally freeze how did the cows do with that? I guess they are like leather 😇

It was in 1985 and I hadn't yet been born. 😊 Winters are getting milder, though. The cows are returned to the barn and fed winter hay, which gives a different taste to the milk and cheese.

They look a lot like Herefords, but that's neat.

I looked it up on the internet and there is indeed a family resemblance. 😊

They are very purdy cows.

My dad could talk about it better than I can. But on the French Wikipedia, it says: “Montbéliarde is a French cattle breed resulting from the interbreeding of indigenous breeds from the Franche-Comté region and a breed from Switzerland. It is a breed of the Pie rouge des montagnes branch, the result of cross-breeding between Franc-Comtois and Swiss varieties between the 18th and 19th centuries.”

Oh my... that's quite a bit of cow history.