Kromfohrländer

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Kromfohrländer
Kromfohrländer
Kromfohrländer wire-haired
Kromfohrländer
Kromfohrländer smooth hair
FCI Standard No. 192
Origin :

Germany

Withers height:

38-46 cm

Weight:

Male : 11–16 kg.
Bitch: 9–14 kg

Varieties :
  • Wire hair
  • Straight hair
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The Kromfohrländer is a German dog breed recognized by the FCI ( FCI Group 9, Section 10, Standard No. 192 ). Since October 2012 it has been listed by the AKC with a view to possible recognition in the Foundation Stock Service .

Origin and history

The Kromfohrländer is one of the youngest German dog breeds. The first breeder, Ilse Schleifenbaum, lived near Siegen in southern North Rhine-Westphalia near the district "Krom Fohr", which means "crooked furrow " in High German . This is how the name Kromfohrländer came about. The idea came up around 1945, when Schleifenbaum took in a stray dog, probably a Griffon Vendéen male , who had escaped from passing GIs . When mating with a female Fox Terrier , a very homogeneous litter arose, which encouraged to try further matings. From 1946 onwards, the offspring of these two parent animals were specifically mated to each other by inbreeding ( hybrid breeding ) and these animals continued to be bred until the phenotype stabilized and the basis for a new breed was created. The breed was recognized in 1955 by the Verband für das Deutsche Hundewesen and the Fédération Cynologique Internationale .

In 1960 a fox terrier was crossed into this breed again and the resulting hybrid dogs were used for the further development of the breed. The Breed Breeding Association of the Kromfohrländer (RZV) sees the pure breeding of the breed as the primary goal of its breeding work.

Outside of the breeding recognized by the VDH, the ProKromfohrländer eV association has existed since 2012, which, in addition to pure breeding of the Kromfohrländer, carries out a crossbreeding project with Dansk-Svensk-Gard dogs . Its aim is to reduce hereditary diseases, lower the inbreeding coefficient and increase the genetic diversity in the breed.

description

There are two different varieties of this dog up to 46 cm tall and up to 16 kg heavy , which are determined by the type of hair: wire hair and straight hair

  • Wire-haired: Dense, rough texture, with a beard, short and soft undercoat. Hair length at the withers and on the back no longer than 7 cm. Shorter on the sides.
  • Straight hair: Dense, soft texture, without a beard. Hair close to the body, short and soft undercoat.

The color is white; light brown, reddish brown to very dark brown markings in the form of spots of different sizes or as a saddle. The ears are set high on the sides and not folded above the roof of the skull; triangular shape with rounded tips.

In the breed standard , the Kromfohrlander is described as an adaptable, adaptive and spirited companion and house dog with a low hunting instinct, reserved towards strangers.

Diseases

Cases of epilepsy occur frequently at the Kromfohrländer . The RZV of the Kromfohrländer writes in a corresponding leaflet: "It is certain that idiopathic epilepsy is a hereditary disease." Both the RZV and the ProKromfohrländer association fight epilepsy within the framework of breeding control with a corresponding genotype procedure.

Kromfohrländer are also affected by a hereditary form of hyperkeratosis of the pads ( corny feet , hereditary footpad hyperkeratosis HFH). Both breeding associations subject their breeding dogs to an appropriate genetic test. Carriers may only be paired with free dogs for this genetic makeup.

It was only after 2015 that studies were published in which the (hereditary) Von Willebrand disease type I was linked to the Kromfohrland breed. A corresponding genetic test is available and mandatory for breeding animals at the ProKromfohrländer association. Newer sources confirm that the Kromfohrländer breed is also affected by this disease in addition to the Doberman .

Furthermore, various forms of autoimmune diseases, patellar dislocation, and elbow dysplasia occur in the breed. A research project to develop a genetic test is being carried out at the University of Bern with regard to cystinuria, which also occurs in Kromfohrländer . The project is supported by the breed clubs.

In order to suppress hereditary diseases in breeding, the RZV of the Kromfohrländer has been deciding on breeding control measures since the beginning of the 90s (current status: November 2018). As a result, animals are not allowed to be bred with an inherited disease.

literature

  • Wanda Countess von Westarp, Inga M. Becker: Kromfohrländer. Practical advice for keeping, care and upbringing (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Vol. 633). Westarp Sciences, Hohenwarsleben 2003, ISBN 3-89432-906-8 .

Web links

Commons : Kromfohrländer  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foundation Stock Service News on the AKC website, posted October 15, 2012.
  2. ↑ Susanne Alck: Inbreeding to a pure breed. Die Zeit, March 11, 1994, accessed March 11, 1994 .
  3. ↑ a b Gabriele Metz: Portrait of VDH member associations: Rassezuchtverein der Kromfohrländer eV Like a phoenix from the ashes . In: Our pedigree dog . No. 12 , 2010, p. 8 ( vdh.de [PDF; 1000 kB ]).
  4. ^ R. Wellmann, I. Pfeiffer: Pedigree Analysis for Conservation of Genetic Diversity and Purging. In: Genetics Research. Vol. 91, No. 3, 2009, ISSN  0016-6723 , pp. 209-129, doi: 10.1017 / S0016672309000202 .
  5. ↑ Anja Engelhardt: Population and molecular genetic analysis of primary cataracts in English Cocker Spaniels and wire-haired Kromfohrlanders , DVG-Service, Gießen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939902-37-9 (Dissertation Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover 2007, 143 pages, ( Full text online PDF, free of charge, 190 pages, 4.11 MB)).
  6. ↑ Sommerfeld-Stur: pedigree dog breeding . 1st edition. Müller Rüschlikon, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-275-02061-4 , p. 223-227 .
  7. ↑ a b Julia H. Segert, Jana-Marie Seidel u. a .: vWDI is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner with incomplete penetrance, in the Kromfohrländer breed. In: Canine Genetics and Epidemiology. 6, 2019, doi: 10.1186 / s40575-019-0073-4 .
  8. ↑ Breed standard No. 192 of the FCI: Kromfohrländer  (PDF)
  9. ↑ Leaflet on the subject of seizure disorders / epilepsy. (PDF 77.9 kB, online at kromfohrlaender.de ).
  10. ↑ Jonas Donner, Heidi Anderson u. a .: Frequency and distribution of 152 genetic disease variants in over 100,000 mixed breed and purebred dogs. In: PLOS Genetics. 14, 2018, p. E1007361, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pgen.1007361
  11. ↑ a b Breeding control measures of the breed club of the Kromfohrländer. As of November 5, 2018 ( online at kromfohrlaender.de ).
  12. ↑ Jonas Donner, Maria Kaukonen a. a .: Genetic Panel Screening of Nearly 100 Mutations Reveals New Insights into the Breed Distribution of Risk Variants for Canine Hereditary Disorders. In: PLOS ONE. 11, 2016, p. E0161005, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0161005 .
  13. ↑ OMIA (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals, the University of Sidney) (Online at https://omia.org/OMIA001057/9615 )
  14. ↑ Research project for cystinuria when Kromfohrländer and Irish Terrier. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .