Bohuskulla
| Conservation status | FAO (2007): critical-maintained |
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| Country of origin | Sweden |
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| Coat | usually black or brown colour-sided |
| Horn status | polled (hornless) |
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The Bohuskulla is an endangered Swedish breed of hornless mountain cattle. It originates from the area of the Kynnefjäll plateau in northern Bohuslän and Dalsland, in western Sweden. It is a traditional domestic Swedish breed, and derives from a group of cattle discovered in the 1990s in Skepplanda, in Västergötland, close to the border with Bohuslän.Microsatellite analysis has shown it to be closely related to the Fjällko mountain cattle of Sweden.
The Bohuskulla is a traditional domestic Swedish breed. Microsatellite analysis has shown it to be closely related to the Fjällko mountain cattle of Sweden; however, unlike the Fjällko, it is polled, hornless. It originates from the barren pasture land of the Kynnefjäll plateau in northern Bohuslän and Dalsland, in western Sweden. Many were exported to Norway in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In the 1990s a small population was identified in Skepplanda, in Västergötland, close to the border with Bohuslän; the cattle had been brought from the Kynnefjäll. A herd-book for the breed was established in 1993.
There is a programme of recovery and conservation of the breed. The Bohuskulla is grouped with two other endangered indigenous cattle breeds, the Ringamålako and the Väneko, as Allmogekor, or roughly "Swedish native cattle". Conservation and registration of these populations is managed by a society, the Föreningen Allmogekon.
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