While the Aosta Chestnut is raised both for meat and for milk, its principal characteristic is its ability in the Bataille de Reines, the annual cow-fighting contests held in the region.

Partly due to its combative nature, it is not suited to intensive farming, and management is normally transhumant: the cattle are stabled only in winter, and spend the summer months on the mountain pastures of the Alps.

Its principal characteristic is its ability in the Bataille de Reines, the annual cow-fighting contests held in the Aosta Valley.

[2]: 87  Partly due to its combative nature, it is not suited to intensive farming; management is transhumant: the cattle are stabled only in winter, and spend the summer months on the mountain pastures of the Alps.

In the Aosta Valley, formal management of fights dates from 1958, when the Comité Regional des Batailles de Reines was formed.