Red Pied Karelian
(local/other name in English)

(most common name):
• Itäsuomenkarja
(local/other name):
• Itäsuomen karja
• Itä-Suomolainen Karja (ISK)
• Kyyttö
local/other name (English):
• East Finnish
• Eastern Finncattle
• East Finncattle
• Red-and-White Finnish
local/other name (Russian):
• Karelian
local/other name (Swedish):
• Ostfinsk

The Red Pied Karelian had its first breed society started in 1898.

The three Finncattle breeds are:
• West Finncattle
• North Finncattle
• East Finncattle

(Finnish) suomalaiset = Finns

Karelia (Karjala in Finnish) is an area currently divided between Russia and Finland. In DAD-IS, Russia lists the breed ‘Karelian’ as the equivalent to the Red Pied Karelian of Finland — and — Russia also lists this ‘Karelian’ as extinct as of 2006.

However, according to Mason (Encyclopedia 2016), a new dairy breed to be known as ‘Karelian’ was patented in 2013 in Karelia and is based on the Finnish Ayrshire. As of 2021, there is no listing in DAD-IS for this new breed.

This page was last updated on: 2023-05-20

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