Maroon Lorraine
The Brun Marron de Lorraine or Maroon Lorraine is a small breed of rabbit ; their weight is around 2.2 to 2.4 kilograms.
Appearance
The chestnut-brown Lorraine is a wild-colored animal whose fur takes on a chestnut-brown color as a result of the yellow enhancer. The dark guard hairs give the fur a flaky shade. The belly should be tan to straw yellow, with tan being the preferred color. The edges of the ears are dark.
The hereditary formula can probably be with
- ABCDGy2 .. (German symbols) or ABCDE (English symbols)
can be specified.
History of the breed
The Brun Marron de Lorraine come from the Thionville area in Lorraine . There they were developed by Carl Kauffmann, a Swiss immigrant, from 1921 to 1924 in Vitry zu Ome . Kauffmann used tan rabbits and gray "field rabbits " to breed his animals . (The expression "field rabbit" is unclear, it is not clear from the literature whether it is a wild rabbit or a batch of gray country rabbits). In 1925 Kauffmann showed his animals for the first time in Metz at an exhibition. It was recognized as a breed in France in 1932 . When the French standard was reissued in 1948, the breed was thought to be extinct and was therefore deleted. Since the breed was still bred by a few breeders like Oscar Müller in Metz, it was reinstated in the standard in 1958. In Germany the breed was first shown in 1995 in Stuttgart by the breeding association Ottman, Bad Zwischenahn . In 1998/1999 a larger group of chestnut-brown Lorrainers came to Germany when the breeder Brunhilde Rieck from Neustadt am Rübenberge imported animals from France. It was recognized as a breed in 2004.
Similar races
The rabbit in its original color and the Deilenaar show similar fur colors . The Deilenaar are slightly larger than the Maroon Lorraine and show a stronger effect of the yellow enhancer (i.e. different level of mutation); The opaque color of the Deilenaar should be red instead of chestnut brown. There are also certain differences in the structure and length of the fur.
As "Lothringer" (Lotharinger) in the Dutch standard the giant checks (Groot Lotharinger) and the small chicks (Klein Lotharinger) are called.