Compléter Now it's time to play !Version en ligne Now it's time to play ! par Fabio Cucchi 1 replacing Italy States experiment 1850 herds ANARB Gretchen bruna attitude Tell In the " razza " is bred strain of Italian Brown Swiss breed , which is derived from the introduction of subjects including Swiss , Austrian and Bavarian , which adapted to our environment and crossed with American Brown Swiss strain ( It was about eight animals from the canton of Schwyz : a bull ( recorded as William 1 ) and 6 females ( recorded as one Zurich , Lucerne 2 , 3 , 4 Brinlie , Lissa 5 , 6 Christine , Geneva 7 ) plus another bull ( Albert Tell 2 ) and another female from other cantons . Appeared in Italy since the sixteenth century was called " Bruna Alpina' Initially with triple attitude , then dual and finally specializes milk to prevent resizing ( with crosses with Brown Swiss from the United ) . In general , the greater number of was located in areas particularly disadvantaged of mountains and hills . This breed appeared in Lombardy in but with the progress of agricultural transformation in Central and Southern , the Brown , in a few decades , spreads in the Tuscan - Emilian Apennines , in Abruzzo , in Molise , in Campania , Apulia , Basilicata and Calabria , in supporting and local breeds and finding considerable scope for expansion . The Brown Swiss in half of the nineteenth century presents a size much smaller than that reached at the end of the century and a much darker colour . In 1957 was founded the National Association of Brown Swiss Breeders ( ) and today the name is no longer Alpine Brown , but only Brown . In Italy in the early 70s took off the " Brown Swiss " 'with the introduction of brown swiss bulls . Today , however , thanks to the improved to milk , also farms of some importance using the " new " strain of Italian Brown .