Dutch Improved Red Pied

The Dutch Improved Red Pied, Dutch: Verbeterd roodbont vleesras, is a recently-developed Dutch breed of beef cattle.[4]: 172  It derives from the dual-purpose Meuse-Rhine-Issel breed. A breed association was started in 1988.[4]: 172 [3]

Dutch Improved Red Pied
Conservation statusFAO (2007): not at risk[1]: 82 
Other names
  • Dutch: Verbeterd roodbont vleesras[2]: 121 
  • Improved Red and White[3]
Country of originNetherlands
Usebeef
  • Cattle
  • Bos (primigenius) taurus

It is the only beef typical beef cattle breed that originates in the Netherlands. The MRI breed breeds animals with luxury muscularity, and this is how the new breed came into existence: Improved red-and-white meat breed.[5][6] The Dutch company CRV is working on the breed improvement and genetic breedvalue testing together with the national studbook association.[7]

Characteristics

As the name suggests, the animals of this breed are red and white like the animals of the MRI breed. There are two different types within this breed, the A-direction (luxury muscle) and the B-direction (not double buttock). With both types the aim is to have the lowest possible number of births with problems.

References
  1. Barbara Rischkowsky, D. Pilling (eds.) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Accessed January 2017.
  2. Marleen Felius (1995). Cattle Breeds: An Encyclopedia. Doetinchem, Netherlands: Misset. ISBN 9789054390176.
  3. Breed description: Improved Red and White. Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, School of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. Archived 15 October 2007.
  4. Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
  5. http://www.verbeterd-roodbont-vleesvee.nl/
  6. http://www.verbeterdroodbont.nl/
  7. "Verbeterd roodbont - CRV". www.crv4all.be. Archived from the original on 2016-04-02.
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