Thuringian forest goat

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Black, polled Thuringian forest goat in the Bear Park Worbis
Horny buck in the Worms zoo
Brown resting goats in the Alte Fasanerie wildlife park

The Thuringian forest goat is a German goat breed . It was created around 1900 from Thuringian lands through crossbreeding with Swiss Toggenburg goats . Initially called the Thuringian Toggenburger , the refined breed was named "Thuringian Forest Goat" in 1935. The spelling Thuringian Forest Goat, which is often used, is spelling incorrectly .

description

The animals are medium-sized and strongly built. The smooth, short hair is light brown to chocolate-colored, but black animals also occur. She has no eel line . The mirror , lower legs and erect ears are white, white stripes run from the base of the horn to the mouth. Both sexes can be horned or hornless.

The undemanding, resilient breed has a good milk yield (700–800 kg; 3.5% fat) and high fertility with good maternal characteristics. It also provides excellent meat and is also used in landscape maintenance.

The Society for the Preservation of Old and Endangered Domestic Animals named the Thuringian Forest Goat " Pet of the Year 1993".

distribution

In 1936 there were about 60,000 Thuringian forest goats. In the 1950s a decline set in, so that by the end of the 1980s there were only 120 animals in two buck lines of this breed. In 1988 a breeder purposefully crossed a buck and three dams from Swiss Toggenburg goats in order to enlarge the gene pool and thus preserve the breed.

In 2004, 711 female herdbook animals of the Thuringian forest goat were kept by 106 breeders in 13 federal states, 45 percent of them in Thuringia . Of these, 29 breeders with 273 female herdbook animals were registered in the Suhl Zoo . Further herdbook breedings were operated in Lippelsdorf and Böhlen , not herdbook breedings were found in Ruhla , Meura and Sonneberg .

Their population is monitored by the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food . There are Kryoreserven created and be subject to monitoring.

The stocks have now recovered. In 2011 there were around 150 male goats and 1,300 mother goats registered in 120 herd book farms nationwide with a focus on Thuringia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Saxony. With the aim of preserving the endangered breed in the future, a nationwide breed advisory board was founded in the summer of 2012.

See also

literature

  • Karola Stier: The Thuringian Forest Goat . In: Society for the preservation of old and endangered domestic animal breeds eV (Ed.): Online brochure focus on sheep, goats, working dogs . 2008 ( PDF file [accessed January 5, 2014]).

Web links

Commons : Thuringian Forest Goat  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Federal Office for Agriculture and Food: Red List of Endangered Indigenous Livestock Breeds in Germany. Edition 2010 ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pp. 98–99 (PDF, 1.85 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.genres.de
  2. ↑ a b Homepage Rassebeirat TWZ ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 23, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thueringerwaldziege.de
  3. ↑ Stefan Neumann: Thuringian forest goats - ideal for grazing mountain meadows. In: Magazin Naturpark Thüringer Wald , Issue 5, Friedrichshöhe 2004, pp. 37–39.