Estonian Red cattle

The Estonian Red (Estonian: Eesti punane veis) 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 cow in the barn of Estonian University of Life Sciences near Tartu

Its conservation status was not listed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 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