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Estonian Red cattle
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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.

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
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