Meuse Rhine Issle

[holywell farmer]

just out of interest is breed very popular in the uk ?

 

[Will Blackburn]

No, not in the slightest.

 

[salers]

Large herd at Gwaenysgor.

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

Had one at work that was cheap out of mart. Milked ok, was a quiet cow, got in calf and lasted well.

 

[milkloss]

The old man was into this sort of stuff: MRI, montbelliarde and rotebund (rotebunte?). My opinion was that if you’re going to milk a cow then get a milking cow. Those breeds didn’t do anything particularly well.

 

[Skintagain]

There’s a few about. Calves seem to sell well.

 

[dazza b]

Dad used to milk pures (mri) and crosses a few with Holsteins milked Fairley well and bull calves were cracking, very placid as well these were imported from Holland

 

[mo!]

Our experience of trying to fatten them is that they look good but grow slowly. They will be MRI crosses though.

 

[AGN76]

Large herd at Gwaenysgor.

Is/was largest in UK. Using Red and white Holstein now I think

 

[jondear]

The old man was into this sort of stuff: MRI, montbelliarde and rotebund (rotebunte?). My opinion was that if you’re going to milk a cow then get a milking cow. Those breeds didn’t do anything particularly well.

Depends a bit on the type of farming system your trying to run .

 

[Loner]

just out of interest is breed very popular in the uk ?

Hi , just got this link for the breed, evidently there are stock available for sale in the UK.
http://www.mri.org.uk/

 

[holywell farmer]

Large herd at Gwaenysgor.

And think near Rhyl a herd too,

 

[holywell farmer]

No, not in the slightest.

I hear there breed of cow which does very well on grass, better than Holstein

 

[sidjon]

We had some, sold them as single suck cows, never again

 

[borderterribles]

I helped put some MRI's through the ring at a dispersal a few years ago. Absolutely obstinate b***ers and a good job the dry ones had tail tapes on, so we could tell the dry ones from those that had to be milked after leaving the ring!

 

[applejack]

We had about half a dozen back in the 70's just after I left school, think the AI bull was called Gerrit. Was just an experiment really on our Fresian cows before we moved over to pedigree Holsteins. I seem to recall some came red and white ,some black.
They were nothing special and with regard to beefing quality I remember them being not much different to the fat dumpy Dutch bred fresians that we had at the time.
I think a few people persevered with them for a few years.

 

[lazy farmer]

My best ever cow was an mrix Holstein
Weighed around 550kg and produced 700kgs of solids per season. Lasted 7-8 lactations no health issues. Her only “issue” was stopping on the tracks and not letting any others get by her. I used to keep her in and let her out last!

 

[applejack]

That's interesting lazy, maybe they were ahead of their time, I know generally they produced good solids and I imagine could have had a place today in a crossbreeding program .Lack of marketing or breed development maybe! ?

 

[holywell farmer]

We had some, sold them as single suck cows, never again

My relatives herd had MRI cow it was nothing special in milk yield,

 

[Will Blackburn]

I hear there breed of cow which does very well on grass, better than Holstein

Yes, but there's better grass cows about.