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EveryCow

All breeds

207 breeds so far, best known first. 232 more are on the list to be written.

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🇸🇪 SwedenFjällSvensk fjällras A polled, mostly white dairy cow from the Swedish mountains, hardy on thin grazing.Taurine · Dairy · Polled

🇮🇸 IcelandIcelandicíslenskur nautgripur A small, mostly polled dairy breed isolated in Iceland for a thousand yearsTaurine · Dairy · Polled 🇪🇪 EstoniaEstonian nativeeesti maatõug A polled dairy breed from Estonia, yellow-brown to red, with a herdbook since 1914Taurine · Dairy · Polled

🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 3 moreRed Poll A naturally hornless red English breed, kept for milk and beefTaurine · Dual-purpose · Polled

🇫🇮 FinlandWestern Finncattle A red, hornless dual-purpose breed from western Finland, kept for milk and beefTaurine · Dairy · Polled

🇸🇪 SwedenSwedish PolledSvensk Kullig Boskap A hornless red dairy cow from Sweden, formed in 1937 from the Rödkulla and Fjäll breedsTaurine · Dairy · Polled

🇫🇮 FinlandFinncattle Small, hornless Finnish dairy cattle in three types: red, white and red-and-whiteTaurine · Dairy · Polled

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Swedish Red Polled: Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Western Finncattle: MPorciusCato (cropped by Pitke ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Icelandic: Christian Bickel (user Fingalo ), CC BY-SA 2.0 de, source
Red Poll: Poinciana, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Fjäll: Yvonne Zimmermann, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, source
Finncattle: Eero Järnefelt, Public domain, source

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