The Camargue Bull / Taureau de Camargue
Conditioned by the environment in which it lives, the Camargue bull is a rustic animal. The Camargue cattle live in herds called "manade" and their breeding ground and path is made up of marshlands and territories with natural spaces. Its size is slender, does not exceed 1m30, and the head is thin. His coat is always very dark. The horns are the most typical characteristic of the breed because they go vertically towards the sky, forming a perfect lyre, especially in the females.
The Camargue bull has never been able to be domesticated and the maintenance of the breed is due only to its aptitudes to play and run. Rustic and resistant, its breeding today is practiced by 120 breeders who group around 15000 heads. Bull breeding, like that of the Camargue horse, is an extensive breeding.
It is only in the late 1990s that bull meat became one of the few beef that benefits from the Controlled Designation of Origin. It lives in herds (herds), in semi-freedom on land that is not suitable for cultivation on which only rushes, willows, triangles grow ... which constitute their only nourishment.