Meuse-Rhine-Issel

Meuse-Rhine-Issel
Bull, photograph from circa 1938
Conservation status
Other names
  • Meuse-Rhine-Yssel
  • Maas-Rijn-IJssel
  • Maas-Rijn-IJsselvee
Country of originNetherlands
Usedairy
Traits
Weight
  • Female:
    700 kg[4]: 243 
Height
  • Male:
    145 cm[4]: 243 
  • Female:
    137 cm[4]: 243 
Coatred pied, often with little red[5]
  • Cattle
  • Bos (primigenius) taurus
a lightly-built bull, almost entirely white with a few small red patches
Breeding bull, 2007

The Meuse-Rhine-Issel or Meuse-Rhine-Yssel (Dutch: Maas-Rijn-IJssel) is a Dutch breed of dual-purpose cattle, reared both for meat and for milk.[6][7] It falls within the Lowland-Pied group of North European cattle; it is red-pied, and of medium-large size.[8]: 45 

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