• Selected for her almost perfect characteristics, Neige also has a character that allows her to remain calm in the noisy and hectic environment of the Salon de l'agriculture.

  • After the show, the cow will return to her farm in Le Grand Bornand in Haute-Savoie to provide milk that will be used to produce AOP Abondance cheese.

  • According to an organizer of the Agricultural Show, at least 60% of the 600,000 visitors come to see the muse cow of the week, and take a picture of it.

“She's a bit of a prom queen.

“Leaning on the wooden logs that delimit the stall, many visitors have fun watching the star of the 2022 International Agricultural Show. Stoic, as if jaded by success, Neige, muse of this 58th edition, continues to ruminate quietly his hay.

We have to believe that this cow of the Abondance breed seems made for glory and its presence in the center of pavilion 1 is not due to chance.

"She has all the assets of a beautiful Abondance, explains Philippe Missilier, her breeder, a beautiful mahogany red dress all over her body, a white head, dark glasses around her eyes which protect her from the reverberation of the sun and hooves. really black that show she's no problem.

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Almost perfect measurements

In the evaluation of its breed characteristics by the "pointers" of the Agricultural Show, body depths, widths, udders, the young four-year-old bovine obtained the score of 82, when the average of its counterparts is around 60. Born on a ski slope in Grand Bornand, Neige proudly represents Abondances and its department, Haute-Savoie.

Better, his character seems shaped for the podiums and other red carpets.

Very calm, she crosses the Agricultural Show without batting an eyelid according to Philippe Missilier.

“We are watching for all the signs.

The first two days, she gave less milk, which seems normal considering the journey she has traveled.

But since then, she eats normally and her lactation has returned to a normal level, everything is fine.

With a five-minute milking in the morning and another in the evening, Neige produces her daily 35 liters of milk.

Physical and psychological preparation

It must be said that Neige has received a little preferential treatment since her appointment as the face of the Salon de l'agriculture last November.

More regular brushing, a good clipping to show off her best hair and a few drops of Bach flower to relax her before her ten-hour trip to the capital.

His breeder had even concocted a physical preparation worthy of the greatest parades.

"She's more used to mountain pastures, so to prepare her, I put music on her in the barn and some lights with flashes for a month, like cameras.

What accustom Neige to what she saw at the Parc des Expositions at Porte de Versailles.

And it does not fail.

His box is surrounded all day.

According to an organizer, at least 60% of the 600,000 visitors come to see the star of the week, and take her picture.

As a real star, Neige even had a double ready to take her place if she defected once she arrived in Paris.

She didn't need it, Philippe Missilier even laughs: “She has character.

I had prepared for the demands of visitors, professionals and journalists, but it seemed that I was more stressed than her.

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Back to normal life at the end of the week

Not impressed by the guards of honor to which she is entitled when she crosses pavilion 1 of the show to go to the milking parlour, she even benefits from a few privileges in the queue to go to the “pullers”.

“It's true that it happens once or twice that we pass in front of others if there are people.

But it's just so that she quickly returns to her stall and that visitors can see her, ”smiles Philippe Missilier.

When asked what orientation Neige could give to the rest of her career, the breeder plays it modest, no Miss France version tour for the young abundance.

“She will return to Le Grand Bornand, her head full of memories of the capital, and will go up to the mountain pastures in the spring to make farmhouse Reblochon AOP with her friends.

No doubt, Neige was born under a lucky star.

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