Carinthian blond cattle
The Carinthian Blondvieh is an old, indigenous livestock breed that is native to Carinthia , Austria .
features
Uniformly white to corn yellow breed of cattle with light-colored muzzle , horns and claws . Cows 500–600 kg, bulls 800–850 kg. The blond cattle used to be used as draft cattle, milk and meat suppliers.
history
It is not exactly clear since when this breed has existed. Each color deviation used to be a breed of its own.
Adolf Gstirner sees the blond cattle as a descendant of the Slovenian cattle, which came to Carinthia with the Slavs . A new breed was created by crossing mainly with the yellow cattle (Würzburg cattle). After the breeding sites (Gut Mariahof near Sankt Salvator ) and the Lavanttal , the breed was called Mariahofer and Lavanttaler, depending on the region . The Central Committee of the Carinthian Agricultural Society decided in its meeting on March 6, 1890, to combine both breeds under the name Carinthian Blondvieh .
On March 25, 1924, the Carinthian State Blondvieh Breeding Association was founded, which was supposed to improve the previously poor breeding results. After the Second World War , this Carinthian association merged with the Blondviehzuchtverband Südmark to form the Blondviehzuchtverband Kärnten-Steiermark .
In 1947 the association started artificial insemination . As early as 1949, 9,631 inseminations were carried out. A separate animal breeding hall was built in Sankt Veit an der Glan in 1950. In 1970 there were around 60,000 blond cattle in Carinthia. However, by 1990 the stock fell to only about 100 pieces. In 1994 the Blondviehzuchtverein was re-established and in 2003 there were again 500 dams.
In the past few years, local associations ( Arche Austria ) and ÖNGENE have carried out intensive maintenance work on the sparse remaining stocks .
Duration
2002 : 421 cows, 42 bulls
2005 : 524 cows, 40 bulls, 323 calves
literature
- A. Gstirner: Origin of the Styrian cattle breeds .
- Johann Burger: The Lavanttaler Hornviehrace .
- H. Sommeregger: Contribution to the history of Carinthian blond cattle breeding , 1944.
Web links
- Homepage Carinthian Blondvieh with photos
- Carinthian Blondvieh on the website of Arche Austria (Association for the Conservation of Endangered Pet Breeds)
- Central Carinthian Blondvieh . Entry no. 50 in the register of traditional foods of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism .