Pinzgauer radiant goat

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Pinzgauer radiant goats

The Pinzgauer rays Goat (formerly "Pinzgauer Strahlengeiß" or "Gestriemte Goat") is a black-and-white-colored and endangered mountain goat breed . Their historical distribution area included Salzburg , Tyrol and the Bavarian Alps .

Appearance

The Pinzgauer radiant goat is a medium-sized to large-framed, strongly built mountain goat with a deep, wide body. The fur is medium-length and black to brown in color. In the field of vision it shows the eponymous white rays, which are interrupted in male animals with increasing age. The area around the mouth as well as the inside of the ears, the mirror and the legs are also white. The limbs are traversed by a narrow black stripe at the forefoot joint and at the ankle. Most of the animals are horned, but genetically hornless animals also occur. Buck have a height at the withers of 70 to 90 cm and a weight of 65 to 85 kg, goats from 70 to 85 cm and 45 to 75 kg.

Occasionally, completely black or piebald animals are born. In conservation breeding with low populations, these animals still play an important role for the offspring, as they too give birth to fawns with characteristic features. In Austria, however, these are excluded from herdbook breeding because the population is increasing.

Due to their color genetics, which are similar to those of the original Bezoar goat , ray goat types can be found in the entire Alpine region. The radiation pattern is therefore not a cultivated feature, but rather a natural appearance.

Therefore, the Pinzgau radiant goat is easy to confuse with the Bündner radiant goat , the British Alpine or the Thuringian forest goat , but genetically not closely related to these breeds.

properties

The Pinzgauer radiant goat proves to be a robust and frugal mountain breed that is also well suited for extreme housing conditions. As a resilient alpine animal, it still shows some original behavioral characteristics. For example, she creates scrub areas for skin care, hides the young fawns for protection or instinctively looks for rock shelters when bad weather threatens. The good undercoat also makes them less susceptible to the cold.

As landscape conservationists, they are also involved in the displacement of blackberries, spruces, ferns, etc. similar useful. As a good milk supplier, the Pinzgauer radiant goat achieves an annual production of approx. 600 to 650 kg milk. This is particularly mild in taste and thus proves to be of high quality. In the performance test of the 30-day weight, the fawns come to values ​​between 9.5 and 12 kg.

History and Distribution

As a down-to-earth breed, the radiant goat originated in the Pinzgau in Salzburg . At the beginning of the 1930s it became the inventories of Grisons rays goat in Switzerland exported. During the Nazi regime, racial cleansing did not stop at animals either, and so the keeping of the Pinzgau radiant goat was prohibited. It did not meet the ideal of a brown milk goat.

It was not until 2002 that the first conservation measures were taken, initiated by Arche Austria - Association for the Conservation of Endangered Domestic Animals - and supported by the Salzburg Regional Association for Sheep and Goats. As a result, the Austrian National Association for Genetic Reserves of Farm Animals (ÖNGENE) recognized it as a highly endangered goat breed and included it in the list of domestic animal breeds supported by the agri-environmental measures ( Austrian Program for Environmentally Friendly Agriculture (ÖPUL) 2007).

Currently, the breeding amounts to a few in East Tyrol , the Tyrolean Oberland , the South Tyrolean border region to North Tyrol and the state of Salzburg . The stock is currently limited to 219 herd book animals (as of 02/2017). Since 2016, a farm in the historical distribution area of ​​the Bavarian Alps has also started breeding. The aim is to open a Bavarian herd book (status 02/2017).

photos

  • Ideal image of a fully grown Pinzgau ray goat

  • Young goat with kid

  • Pinzgauer Strahlenziege as landscape maintenance

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pinzgauer Strahlenziege - Tyrolean Goat Breeding Association
  2. ↑ Rare farm animals of the Alps. 7000 years of cultural landscape. Verlag Anton Prustet 2014, ISBN 978-3-7025-0744-2
  3. ^ Pinzgauer Strahlenziege - Arche Austria
  4. ↑ Rare farm animal breeds. Diversity manual. 3rd edition 2016, published by the Austrian Board of Trustees for Agricultural Engineering and Rural Development (ÖKL)
  5. ↑ Pinzgauer Strahlenziege - Salzburgwiki