Type

The animals have an average size, they are deep and have a wide and well muscled body. The skeleton is thin and very strong. The head is short and wide with strong horns. The glance is vivace and expressive, the front is straight and the muzzle wide. Feet and legs are short and strong with sound articulations and solid hoofs. The position of the legs is correct and the move is easy and speedy.

Color

Hérens animals are unicoloured from black to brown-red (fawn). The mucosis, the hoofs and the peaks of the horns are black or have the colour of lead metal. The colourwise wide formulated breed standard has facilitated the selection of phenotypes from various colours. In 1983, Lauvergne has described these colour versions as follows: black, inverted mulish vertex, brown of the fawns with black or badger coloured feet and legs (belly and legs are black), as well as all possible intermediate stages of all different types.

A rare peculiarity of the Hérens Breed is the change of colour of the new born calves at the occasion of the moult; the red body turns into black and the black top line turns into red.

Size and live weight of mature animals