English piebald

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The English piebald is a small (2.50 to 3.25 kg) breed of rabbits .

Appearance and characteristics of the English piebald

English check

Like the German giant check , the Rhenish check and the small or Czech check , the English pinto belongs to the point piebald breeds, but shows a different drawing than this. The head drawing is similar to that of the other point piebald breeds, it includes the snout drawing (the so-called butterfly ), the narrow but evenly wide eye rim, the cheek points on both sides and the ear drawing that is as sharply demarcated as possible. The butterfly sits on the tip of its nose and grabs its snout with its wings up to the corners of its mouth. The lower jaw should be as white as possible. The rump drawing includes the eel line, which, starting immediately behind the ears, runs as narrow as possible like a brush stroke along the spine to the tip of the flower. The so-called chain drawing also begins immediately behind the roots of the ears. It runs in the form of fine dots in double rows, diagonally or slightly arched, up to the thighs, where it represents the transition to the side drawing. The pea-sized side spots cover the thigh area. Like the other dot piebalds, the English pinto is split-sized. Mating of type-appropriate animals leads to 25% monochrome animals, 50% type chicks and 25% so-called light chicks. The mostly non-viable Hellschecken show only an incomplete eel line and no side markings. This inheritance is caused by the factor for Punktscheckung (German symbol k / K, English en / En), which is linked to a so-called lethal factor, which means that Hellschecke have a significantly reduced viability. The English piebald is recognized in the colors black, blue, Thuringian and three-colored.

The corresponding hereditary formulas are:

  • Black: ABCDgK / ABCDgk (German symbols) or aBCDE en / aBCDE En (English symbols)
  • Blue: ABCdgK / ABCdgk (German symbols) or aBCdE en / aBCdE En (English symbols)
  • Thuringian colored: AbCDgK / AbCDgk (German symbols) or aBCDe En / aBCDe en (English symbols)
  • Three-colored: AbjCDgK / AbjCDgk (German symbols) or aBCDej En / aBCDej en (English symbols)

History of the breed

Piebald rabbits have been known for a long time, Sandford quotes a paper by J. Rogers from 1849:

"What is termed the 'blue butterfly smut' was for some time considered the most valuable of fancy rabbits, it is thus named on account of having bluish or lead-colored spots on either side of the nose, considered as having some resemblance to the Spread wings of a butterfly ... A black and white rabbit may also have the face marked in a similar manner, constituting a 'black butterfly smut' ... But a good fancy rabbit must likewise have other marks ... and there ought to be dark stripes on both sides of the body in front, passing backwards to meet the saddle, and uniting on the top of the shoulders, at the part called the withers in a horse; these stripes form what is termed the 'chain'. "

Translation:

What is called the "Blue Butterfly Sootnose" was for some time the most valuable collector's breed, it is so called because of the blue or lead-gray spots on both sides of the nose that have some resemblance to the spread wings of a butterfly ... One black -White rabbit may have drawn the face in a similar way, depicting a "black butterfly soot nose" .... But a good lover rabbit must have other markings at the same time ... and so there should be dark stripes in front on both sides, running backwards By brushing the saddle and joining at the shoulders in what is called the horse's withers, these strips form what is called a chain.

According to Dorn, the first piebald rabbits are said to have been gray and white, the gray color is still permitted in England today . In 1887 A. Towsend showed black and white English piebalds in Leeds , and in the same year the Madagascar or Thuringian colors became known. The first special club for this breed was on January 28, 1891 in Liverpool , the first special show, at which several color varieties were shown, took place in 1892 in Mytholmroyd . Franke quotes Luke Shaw and his writing "The English Rabbit" , according to which the English piebald emerged from ordinary gray and white country rabbits.

The first export of English piebalds to Germany took place around 1900 by Fendwyk from Grimsby . The first German standard was published in 1902 by Hans Ott from Bamberg and Leon Coutain from Gmünden .

The standard at that time required an animal with significantly larger spots that covered the sides significantly more than is the case with today's animals. At 4.5 kg, the size of the animals was within the range of today's medium-sized breeds.

Today the English breed is a breed that shows a certain decline, so 264 animals were shown in four colors at the Bundesschau 2003, compared to 498 animals at the Bundesschau 1995.

Similar races

Especially in the head drawing, the English piebald corresponds to the other point piebald breeds, it differs from these clearly in the side drawing.

literature

  • A. Franke: English piebald , in: The small animal breeder - rabbits 3/1997 ISSN  0941-0848
  • A. Franke: Englische Schecken , in: Der Kleintierzüchter-Rabbit 20/2006 ISSN  1613-6357
  • Friedrich Joppich: The rabbit , Berlin, VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, 1967
  • John C. Sandford: The domestic rabbit , 5th edition, Blackwell Science, Oxford 1996 ISBN 0-632-03894-2
  • Wolfgang Schlolaut: The big book of the rabbit , 2nd edition, DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt 1998 ISBN 3-7690-0554-6