Maine-Anjou Cattle

The Maine-Anjou is a French breed from the historic province of Maine in the Pays de la Loire region, developed in the nineteenth century by crossing local Mancelle dairy cattle with British Durham stock and originally called Durham-Mancelle before being renamed in 1908; in France it was rebranded Rouge des Pres in 2004, though Maine-Anjou remains its name elsewhere. Red-pied and horned in both sexes, bulls weigh 1,000 to 1,500 kilograms and stand around 170 centimeters, cows 850 to 1,000 kilograms and about 140 centimeters; it was originally dual-purpose for meat and milk but has been raised mainly for beef since about 1970. About 90 percent of the French population is in Pays de la Loire, with the rest in Basse-Normandie and Poitou-Charentes, and the breed is also kept in eight countries worldwide, roughly a third of it in the United States. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/