Bentheimer Landschaf
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The Bentheimer Landschaf is a robust, undemanding domestic sheep breed and is considered the largest German heather sheep breed.
The Bentheimer Landschaf
The breed is not related to the Heidschnucken, but originated in the Bentheim / Emsland / Drente region at the same time through the crossing of Dutch and German heather sheep. It is named after the county of Bentheim in southwestern Lower Saxony . The Bentheimer Landschaf is very closely related to the Schoonebeker sheep from the Netherlands, which is a sister breed and shares the origins of the Bentheimer Landschaf. The Bentheim sheep was first mentioned in 1864.
The Bentheimer Landschaf reaches a height at the withers of up to 75 cm. Bucks weigh 90 to 110 kg, ewes up to 75 kg. The animals have white wool and there are dark spots around their eyes and feet.
The sheep breed is threatened with extinction according to the Red List of the Society for the Conservation of Old and Endangered Pet Breeds (GEH). In the 1970s only three breeders from the Emsland kept a total of 50 Bentheimers in their stud books.
In 2011 there were still around 2364 female and 168 male herdbook animals in Germany, which are bred in Lower Saxony in the Grafschaft Bentheim, the Emsland and the Diepholz area as well as in many other federal states with a focus on North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg. According to the Red List of the Society for the Conservation of Old and Endangered Pet Breeds and a hazard number of 1008 GKZ, the breed is therefore listed under Category II (highly endangered).
The Bentheimer Landschaf was named pet of the year in 2005 . The breed is particularly suitable for landscape maintenance and for the care of sandy and bog heaths. In the Nordhorn Zoo and the Black Mountains Wildlife Park , the Bentheimer Landschaf is preserved and bred as an endangered regional domestic animal breed.
Every year on the last Saturday in July, an elite auction takes place in Uelsen , Grafschaft Bentheim. This auction has been the traditional marketing channel for rams of the Bentheimer Landschaf breed since 1995 and took place for the 15th time in Uelsen at the riding hall in 2009. Breeders from the other breeding areas of Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Saarland participate in the nationwide elite auction. Until 1995, the auctions had taken place in Emsland.
See also
- List of endangered livestock breeds
- Austrian National Association for Gene Reserves
- Various initiatives for the conservation of old and endangered domestic animal breeds (VIEH)
- Landscape maintenance yard
literature
- Tobias Böckermann : The Bentheimer Landschaf. History and future of an old livestock breed. Verlag der Emsländische Landschaft eV (Sögel) 2011, ISBN 978-3-925034-45-9 .
Web links
- Land under eV: The Bentheimer Landschaf - Langsteert.
- GEH: Bentheimer Landschaf (breed description)
- VIEH: The breed portrait of Bentheimer Landschaf.
- State Sheep Breeding Association Weser-Ems, State Sheep Breeding Association Lower Saxony: Bentheimer Landschaf.
Individual evidence
- ↑ VLN Saar: The endangered livestock breed of the year 2005 - the Bentheim landscape (sic!) ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2015 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 December 17, 2009
- ^ Society for the preservation of old and endangered domestic animal breeds : Bentheimer Landschaf , accessed on January 15, 2013
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