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The Kleinschecke or Czech pinto is a small (3.0 to 3.75 kg, Czech pinto up to 4 kg) breed of rabbits . Due to the history of its origins, the breed is known in Germany as the small piebald, while internationally, including in the European standard, it is referred to as the Czech piebald.

Appearance and special features of the small pinto

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 markings that are as sharply defined 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 body drawing includes the eel line, which, beginning immediately behind the ears, runs about 2 cm across the backbone to the tip of the flower and the 6–8 free-standing side spots on the flanks. The drawing of the small pinto completely corresponds to that of the giant pinto .

Like the German giant check , the English check and the Rhenish check , the small pinto belongs to the point chick breeds. Like the other point pelvis, the small 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 small check is permitted in the colors black, blue and Havana.

The corresponding hereditary formulas are:

  • black: ABCDgK / ABCDgk (German symbols) or aBCDE En / aBCDE en (English symbols).
  • blue: ABCdg K / ABCdg k (German symbols) or aBCdE En / aBCdE en (English symbols).
  • Havana-colored: ABcDg K / ABcDg k (German symbols) or abCDE En / abCDE en (English symbols).

The colors yellow, madagascar (Thuringian- colored ) , wild-colored (gray), iron-gray, isabella, chinchilla and black-yellow are also permitted for the Czech pinto . The corresponding hereditary formulas of these colors are:

  • yellow: AbCDG K / AbCDG k (German symbols) or ABCDe En / ABCDe en (English symbols).
  • Madagascar: AbCDg K / AbCDg k (German symbols) or aBCDe En / aBCDe en (English symbols).
  • Wild-colored (gray): ABCDGK / ABCDGk (German symbols) or ABCDEs En / ABCDEs en (English symbols).
  • Iron gray: ABeCDGK / ABeCDGk (German symbols) or ABCDE En / ABCDE en (English symbols).
  • chinchilla: AchiBCDGK / AchiBCDG k (German symbols) or ABCch2DE En / ABCch2DE en (English symbols).
  • Isabella: AbCdg K / AbCdg k (German symbols) or aBCde En / aBCde en (English symbols).
  • black-yellow: AbjCDgK / AbjCDgk (German symbols) or aBCDej En / aBCDej en (English symbols).

History of the breed

The Czech check

In the Czech Republic , the so-called Bohemian rabbits, d. H. the country rabbits, which were then common on the farms, were bred by selection, the Czech piebald. The teacher Jan Vaclav Kalal made a special contribution to this breed. In 1913 the “Club of Refiners and Breeders of the Czech Piebald” was founded, whose members dealt with the breeding of this breed. At the World Poultry Congress in Leipzig in 1936, the international recognition of the Czech piebald was rejected on the grounds that these animals were merely miniaturized German giant pints. The breed continued to be bred in the Czech Republic and was internationally recognized in 1973. With the assessment regulations for pedigree rabbits in socialist countries, the Czech check was also recognized as a breed in the GDR in 1980 .

The small check

Ignoring the fact that there was already a small breed in the Czech Republic with the drawing of the giant chick, Arnold Hirt (later in breeding association with Dieter Rapp, Deißlingen ) decided to develop this type of rabbit. To this end, he mated weakly marked English piebalds with German giant piebalds and selected the progeny according to the breeding goal he was aiming for. Later, Rheinische Schecken were also crossed. In 1974, Hirt exhibited the first animals in Stuttgart and also passed animals on to interested parties. After Hirt and Rapp showed the new breed again in 1976, the breed became more widespread and the factual identity with the Czech piebald became known. In the period that followed, Czech animals were imported into the Federal Republic, which led to a significant improvement in the pinto pinto. The breed was recognized in the Federal Republic of 1978 as a small piebald.

literature

  • W. Schlohlaut: The big book of the rabbit. 2nd Edition. DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-7690-0554-6 .
  • A. Hirt: Little piebalds. In: rabbits. No. 10, 1996, ISSN  0941-0848
  • A. Franke: Small checks. In: rabbits. No. 12, 1999, ISSN  0941-0848
  • J. Fingerland: The Czech pinto. In: rabbits. No. 8, 1999, ISSN  0941-0848