Alpine stone sheep
The Alpine Stone Sheep is one of the oldest sheep breeds in the world and is the historical starting breed of sheep breeding in the Eastern Alps . It is genetically related to the neo-stone age peat sheep. With the Montafoner , the Krainer and the Tyrolean Steinschaf there are three other independent breeds in addition to the Alpine Steinschaf.
Stone sheep are perfectly adapted to the terrain and climate of the high mountains . The color and drawing of the Alpine Stone Sheep are quite diverse. The body is slender, as a mountain specialist it has very hard claws. Most of the goats and sometimes females are horned.
Buck weighs 60 to 75 kg, ewes 45 to 60 kg. They usually give birth to lambs twice a year and have a high milk yield. The wool of the stone sheep consists of long awn and wavy, fine and shorter wool hair.
Today the sheep breed is only kept in small herds by part-time farmers and hobby sheep keepers. It is threatened with extinction. After the stock had been greatly reduced until the 1980s, a herd book about the breeding of the breed has been kept since 1991 . Since 2004, the members of the "Das Alpine Steinschaf" working group have been taking care of coordinating breeding and conservation and providing information about the breed. At the end of 2013, around 670 ewes and 50 bucks were kept in the Alpine region.
The Alpine Stone Sheep was Endangered Livestock Breed of the Year 2009. In Austria, the Alpine Stone Sheep is listed in the register of traditional foods in the traditional knowledge about the rearing of the breed . The international organization for the preservation of traditional foods, Slow Food , accepted the Alpine Stone Sheep in its Ark of Taste in December 2013 .
Web links
- The Alpine Stone Sheep
- Livestock breed of the year 2009
- Alpine stone sheep . Entry no. 196 in the register of traditional foods of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.alpines-steinschaf.net/index.php accessed on May 29, 2015
- ↑ http://www.alpines-steinschaf.net/ueber2.php accessed on May 29, 2015
- ↑ http://www.slowfood.de/biodiversitaet/die_arche_passagiere/alpines_steinschaf/ accessed May 29, 2015
- ↑ http://www.slowfood.de/biodiversitaet/die_arche_passagiere/alpines_steinschaf/ accessed May 29, 2015
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