Estonian Red cattle

The Estonian Red (Estonian: Eesti punane) is an Estonian breed of dairy cattle. It was developed in the second half of the nineteenth century from cross-breeding of local cattle with imported stock of the Angeln, Danish Red and North Slesvig Red breeds.[1]: 174 [2]: 32 [3]: 45 [4] The coat is red, but sometimes it varies from red-white to brown and rarely black.

An Estonian Red cattle in the barn of Estonian University of Life Sciences near Tartu

Its conservation status was not listed by the FAO in 2007;[5]: 38  in 2021 it was reported to DAD-IS as "endangered".[6] It is one of the constituent breeds of the European Red Dairy Breed.[1]: 174 

References
  1. 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.
  2. N.G. Dmitriev, L.K. Ernst (1989). Animal genetic resources of the USSR. FAO animal production and health paper 65. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9251025827. Archived 13 November 2009. Also available here, archived 29 September 2017.
  3. Marleen Felius (1995). Cattle Breeds: An Encyclopedia. Doetinchem, Netherlands: Misset. ISBN 9789054390176.
  4. Tõnu Põlluäär (21 April 2013). Eesti punane veisetõug (in Estonian). Eesti Tõuloomakasvatuse Liit. Accessed October 2021.
  5. Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (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: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
  6. Breed data sheet: Eesti punane / Estonia (Cattle). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed October 2021.
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