List of endangered farm animal breeds in Austria

The list of endangered farm animal breeds in Austria gives an overview of breeds of farm animals that are native to Austria, are classified as endangered there , are looked after by recognized animal breeding organizations and, if necessary, within the scope of the project type "Conservation of endangered farm animal breeds" of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Environment and water management are eligible.

Endangered farm animal breeds

For the measure “Conservation of endangered livestock breeds” in the Austrian program for environmentally friendly agriculture (ÖPUL) of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management and for the associated gene conservation program “Rare livestock breeds worthy of conservation”, ÖNGENE compiled a list of rare livestock breeds. Breeds that are not included in this list are identified as such.

Bovine

race	Illustration	Degree of danger	Supervising animal breeding organization	Stock in Austria	proof
Ennstaler Bergschecke		highly endangered	Cattle breeding in Styria	2010: 0236 animals 2016: 0590 animals	ÖNGENE
Carinthian blond cattle		highly endangered	Carinthian Cattle Breeding Association	2010: 1,627 animals 2016: 1,937 animals	ÖNGENE
Murbodner beef		Endangered breeds with a special gene conservation program	Cattle breeding in Styria	2010: 5,214 animals 2016: 6,307 animals	ÖNGENE
Original Brown Swiss	Image wanted	highly endangered	Vorarlberger Braunviehzuchtverband	2010: 1,601 breeding animals 2016: 2,779 breeding animals	ÖNGENE
Original Pinzgauer		endangered	Cattle Breeding Association Salzburg	2010: 5,100 animals (approx.) 2015: 4,675 ÖPUL-funded breeding animals (without HB information)	ÖNGENE
Pustertal Sprinzen		highly endangered	Cattle breeding and producer association Tyrol	2010: 0584 animals 2016: 1252 animals Small stocks also in South Tyrol and Germany	ÖNGENE
Tyrolean gray cattle		endangered	Tyrolean gray cattle breeding association	2010: 4,000 animals (approx.) 2015: 3,839 breeding animals funded by ÖPUL	ÖNGENE
Tux-Zillertal		highly endangered	Cattle breeding and producer association Tyrol	2010: 1,965 animals 2016: 2,013 animals	ÖNGENE
Waldviertel Blondvieh	Image wanted	highly endangered	Lower Austria. Genetics Cattle Breeding Association	2010: 1,736 animals 2016: 1,145 animals	ÖNGENE

Horses

race	Illustration	Degree of danger	Supervising animal breeding organization	Stock in Austria	proof
Hutsul		endangered	Landespferdezuchtverb. Horse breeder Upper Austria	2016: 39 mares; 4 stallions	ÖNGENE
Old Austrian warmblood	Image wanted	oA	No longer in ÖPUL funding since 2015	9 mares and 4 stallions with over 50% old Austrian bloodlines	ÖNGENE
Lipizzaner		oA	No longer in ÖPUL funding since 2015	Around 200 breeding animals in Austria, around 4,000 worldwide	ÖNGENE
Noriker		endangered	State Horse Breeding Association Salzburg	2009: 4568 mares, 211 stallions 2016: 4565 mares, 188 stallions	ÖNGENE
Shagya Arabs		endangered	Austrian Arab Breeding Association	2009: 189 breeding animals 2016: 114 breeding animals	ÖNGENE

Sheep

race	Illustration	Degree of danger	Supervising animal breeding organization	Herd book inventory in Austria	proof
Alpine stone sheep		highly endangered	Salzburg regional association for sheep and goats	2010: 0438 animals 2016: 1564 animals	ÖNGENE
Brown mountain sheep		highly endangered	State Sheep Breeding Association of Tyrol	2010: 3,223 animals 2016: 4,567 animals	ÖNGENE
Carinthian sheep		Endangered breeds with a special gene conservation program	Sheep and goat breeding association Carinthia	2010: 4,993 animals 2016: 4,984 animals	ÖNGENE
Carniolan stone sheep		highly endangered	Sheep and goat breeding association Carinthia	2010: 1,616 animals 2016: 3,118 animals	ÖNGENE
Montafon stone sheep		highly endangered	Vorarlberg Sheep Breeding Association	2010: 257 animals 2015: 585 animals	ÖNGENE
Tyrolean stone sheep	Image wanted	endangered	State Sheep Breeding Association of Tyrol	2010: 1,909 animals 2016: 2,610 animals	ÖNGENE
Forest sheep		highly endangered	Regional association for sheep breeding and keeping in Upper Austria	2010: 1,582 animals 2016: 1,581 animals	ÖNGENE
Zackelschaf (also: Hungarian Zackelschaf )		highly endangered	Regional association for sheep breeding and keeping in Upper Austria	2010: 280 animals 2016: 509 animals	ÖNGENE

Goats

race	Illustration	Degree of danger	Supervising animal breeding organization	Herd book inventory in Austria	proof
Bare goat		highly endangered	Tyrolean goat breeding association	2010: 088 animals 2016: 204 animals	ÖNGENE
Chamois-colored mountain goat		endangered	Tyrolean goat breeding association	2010: 1,423 animals 2016: 1,806 animals	ÖNGENE
Peacock goat		endangered	Salzburg regional association for sheep and goats	2010: 265 animals 2016: 776 animals	ÖNGENE
Pinzgauer radiant goat		highly endangered	Salzburg regional association for sheep and goats	2010: 067 animals 2016: 219 animals	ÖNGENE
Pinzgau goat		highly endangered	Salzburg regional association for sheep and goats	2010: 417 animals 2016: 963 animals	ÖNGENE
Styrian piebald goat		highly endangered	Styrian goat breeding association	2010: 313 animals 2016: 399 animals	ÖNGENE
Tauern piebald goat		highly endangered	Salzburg regional association for sheep and goats	2010: 0811 animals 2016: 2730 animals	ÖNGENE
Four-horned goat		Mutant of the domestic goat without ÖPUL funding is observed in the context of conservation and genetic resource studies		without disclosures

Pigs

race	Illustration	Degree of danger	Supervising animal breeding organization	Herd book inventory in Austria	proof
Mangalitza pig (woolly pig )		highly endangered	Ark Austria	2010: 270 animals 2016: 234 animals	Arche Austria ÖNGENE
Turopolje pig		highly endangered	Ark Austria	2010: 252 animals 2016: 266 animals	Arche Austria ÖNGENE

Farm animals without the ÖPUL program

In Austria, the Austrian National Association for Gene Reserves (ÖNGENE) is dedicated to taking stock of endangered domestic livestock breeds and takes measures to preserve these breeds.

The Arche Austria - Association for the Conservation of Rare Livestock Breeds - also endeavors to preserve endangered livestock species in Austria . The association also keeps a register of endangered breeds.

The breed list of the measure “Conservation of endangered livestock breeds” in the ÖPUL program can be expanded to include these endangered breeds additionally named by ÖNGENE and Arche Austria.

Bees

In Austria two indigenous "bee races" are known, which beekeeping associations try to keep in pure breeding . However, there is no Austria-wide conservation concept for the local honey bees.

race	Illustration	Existence and endangerment	proof
Apis mellifera mellifera native dark honey bee		Endangered ( CR ) autochthonous breed of bees	Red List of Endangered Animals in Austria , Volume 14/5, 2010 Arche Austria ÖNGENE
Apis mellifera carnica Carnic honey bee		oA	ÖNGENE

Rare poultry breeds

Rare poultry breeds from Austria are not funded in the ÖPUL program. They are therefore listed here without the degree of threat to the continued existence of the company. The conservation breeding of these breeds is supervised in Austria by Arche Austria in cooperation with the Breed Association of Austrian Small Animal Breeders (RÖK). ÖNGENE accompanies you with projects.

Race (color)	Illustration	Stock in Austria	proof
Altsteirer (wild brown, white)		without disclosures	Arche Austria ÖNGENE
Sulmtaler		without disclosures	Arche Austria ÖNGENE
Austrian land goose		not thoroughly bred strike occasional blood refreshment with the Bavarian land goose (type almost identical) approx. 200 breeding animals (incl. ≈ 70 gander)	Arche Austria ÖNGENE

For the sake of completeness, in addition to the breeds mentioned above, the following breeds managed by Arche Austria should also be mentioned, which are listed in Germany as "old native poultry breed":

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  Blue turkey

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  Cröllwitz turkey

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  Country duck with and without a hood

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  Pomeranian duck

dog

race	Illustration	Existence and endangerment	Supervising animal breeding organization	proof
Austrian pinscher		Arche Austria: approx. 55 - 60 puppies per year (KÖP 2010 - 2014)	Club for Austrian Pinschers	Ark Austria

Rabbits

race	Illustration	Existence and endangerment	Supervising animal breeding organization	proof
Blue Viennese rabbit		not endangered	Breed Association of Austrian Small Animal Breeders	Ark Austria
White Viennese rabbit		not endangered	Breed Association of Austrian Small Animal Breeders

Pigeons

In addition, Arche Austria z. In cooperation with the RÖK, the following pigeon breeds and lofts are looked after:

• Wiener Weißschild (ELRT-No .: A / 0837, Tumbler pigeons )
• Viennese short (ELRT-No .: A / 0838, porpoise pigeons)
• Waldviertel Kröpfer
• Austrian pigeon
• Chicken piebald (ELRT-No .: A / 0202, chicken pigeons )
• Maltese (ELRT-No .: A / 0203, chicken pigeons)

See also

• Watchlist from the Rare Breeds Survival Trust
• List of endangered livestock breeds

Literature and evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Breed list for the measure "Conservation of endangered livestock breeds": Austrian Program for Rural Development 2014 - 2020: Measure 10 - Appendix 8.10.5a , PDF download, accessed on April 23, 2017
2. ↑ Conservation of endangered livestock breeds in ÖPUL 2015 . ÖNGENE information sheet, accessed on April 23, 2017.
3. ↑ ÖNGENE: Gene conservation program "Rare livestock breeds worthy of conservation" , accessed on April 23, 2017.
4. ↑ Agricultural genetic resources of the Alps (PDF; 120 kB) Monitoring Institute for Rare Breeds and Seeds in Europe, St. Gallen 2001
5. ↑ oengene
6. ↑ arche-austria
7. ^ ÖNGENE: Bees , accessed April 23, 2017.
8. ^ ÖNGENE: Poultry , accessed on April 23, 2017
9. ↑ Arche Austria: Geflügel , accessed on April 23, 2017.
10. ↑ List of old native poultry breeds in Germany ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: genres.de, accessed on April 23, 2017. 
11. ↑ oe-pinscher-klub.at
12. ↑ arche-austria.at
13. ^ Arche Austria: Tauben , accessed on April 23, 2017.