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BRITISH ALPINE BREED STANDARD
GENERAL APPEARANCE (style & quality): Tall, rangy and graceful with smoothly blended body exhibiting pronounced double dairy wedge shape, fine but not inclined to weakness. Does feminine, bucks obviously masculine in appearance.
HEAD (scull) eyes, ears, mouth, nostrils): Head long with strong square muzzle. Facial line dished or straight, polled or neatly disbudded. Eyes set well apart, full and bright. Ears erect, an pointing slightly forward.
NECK: Blending smoothly into shoulders with or without tassels. Does long and fine. Bucks fine and strong , not course.
BACKLINE: Back strong, straight and horizontal or rising slightly to hips.
FOREQUARTERS: Withers fine and high, blending firmly into shoulders. Chest full between the forelegs, deep in bucks, fairly deep in does.
BODY (barrel): Abdomen well rounded, large, deep and wedge shaped, or proportionate length.
HINDQUARTERS; Gradual slope from hips to tail, good width between hips and thurls. Rump long and flat, pin bones wide and prominent.
LEGS (hooves): Long, strongly boned legs but not course or heavy. Front legs straight and parallel from front and side. Hind legs straight and parallel viewed from rear, hocks slightly bent when seen from the side. Pasterns fairly short and strong. Hooves sound and well shaped.
UDDER: Back attachment high and broad, fore attachment carried well forward and blending smoothly to abdomen, not pendulous or unduly divided, showing good capacity. Skin colour dark, pigmented in black and softly textured.
TESTICLES: Scotum well attached, relatively even and not divided or unduly pendulous, carrying two testes.
TEATS: Of adequate size for ease of milking, well attached and distinct from udder. Set well apart, pointing slightly forward and down, not outward.
RUDIMENTARY TEATS: Two set wide apart slightly to the fore and side of the scrotum, of good size but not over developed, unless the buck is milking.
SIZE (height): Does 32. 1/2 inches (83 cms) Bucks 37.1/2 inches (95 cms).
COAT: Short, fine and glossy, may have fine grey undercoat. Bucks may have a longer coat.
COLOUR :Black with the following white Swiss markings.:
Facial stripes from above eyes to muzzle and on muzzle, edges and tips of ears, legs from the knees
and hocks down and inside of legs to trunk, on rump and and under the base of tail.
Bucks: facial stripes may fade in maturing bucks and may become grey on flanks with age.
DIFFERING FROM IDEAL (found and recognised): Indistinct facial marks. White hair around cheeks, forehead, at the base of or on tassel or on throat in plce of tassels. Off white or cream markings instead of white. Colour tending to greyness (salt and pepper) around base of ears, throat or under neck. Less intense black. Other than grey or black skinned udders. Horned. Nose with slightly raised bridge. White ears. Uneven tassels. Longer fringe along backline and hindquarters.
FAULTS: rusty black coat colouring. Small white spots on body. Cow hocks. Steeply sloping rump. Dropped pasterns. Roach back or sway back. Size differing substantially from ideal. Uneven gait. Poor feet. Splayed feet. Low set ears. Weak or narrow chest. Shallow body. Lack of dairy quality. Fleshy pendulous or unduly divided udders. Pockets in udder. Teats small: thin: large bulbous: ill defined: or unbalanced, Lack of milking capacity, Lack of masculinity in bucks. Divided, uneven or unduly pendulous scrotum.
DISQUALIFICATIONS: Parrot mouth or obvious undershot jaw. Wry face. White patches on barrel or other than those specified above. Pink skinned udders. Double teats, double orifices Supernumerary teats. Intersex. Lack of Swiss markings. White or cream belly. Pendulous ears. Undescended testicles.in bucks or one testicle only.
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