Alderney cattle

Alderney
	Bull, illustration from 1860
Conservation status	Extinct
Country of origin	Channel Islands
Distribution	British Isles
Use	Dairy
Traits
Coat	Dun, fawn, light red or yellow, with or without patches of white
Horn status	Short
	Cattle; Bos (primigenius) taurus;

The Alderney is an extinct breed of dairy cattle. It originated in, and is named for, the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands.^[1]^: 103^[2]^: 139 It was one of three breeds of Channel Island cattle, the others being the Jersey and the Guernsey. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries "Alderney" was a general term for cattle from the archipelago; many were exported to mainland Britain under this name, regardless of which of the islands they came from.

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