The criteria for breed membership
Here is an extract from the UPRA Normande technical regulations:

The following are considered as belonging to the Normande breed:

1. Animals of Normande ancestry

2. Animals of known ancestry and with at least 7/8 Normande blood

3. Animals of unknown ancestry showing a majority of external characteristics peculiar to the Normande breed:

- Coat with 3 colours in varying relative degrees, forming patches with irregular outlines: quail (white), buff, and brindled (dark brown stripes)

- white head, most often with patches around the eyes (spectacles) and muffle

- short, wide muffle

- wide forehead, sunken between the eyes
The presence of any characteristic sign of crossing in its ancestry is disqualificatory (clean outline of the patches on the coat, black spots on the mucous membranes or teats).