Rhone goat
The Rhön goat is a German goat breed that has been lost since the 1920s and is now considered extinct. Along with other breeds, such as the Thuringian Goat , Black Forest goat , Erzgebirg and the franc goat , she became Colorful German Edelziege summarized.
distribution
The breed has its origin in Graubünden and Central Switzerland . The Rhön goat was adapted to the barren soils and the rough landscape of the Rhön . In his dissertation of 1903 Contributions to the Knowledge of the Rhön Goat , Carl Kronacher mentions a population of the Rhön goats in the Mellrichstadt district of 1750 animals, 250 of them with crossed Saanen goats . The animals were kept in households in small herds of one to five. The crossings originated in 1860 and 1870.
In his dissertation, Kronacher also mentions a state-supervised breeding station on the Dreistelzhof near Brückenau . There, gray, silver-gray, black-brown and black animals with black or small white markings and polled were bred.
The veterinarian Georg Wilsdorf mentions in his book Die Ziegenzucht a population of this breed in the town of Bischofsheim of 200 animals around 1918. In the meantime, efforts are being made in the Rhön to locate the genetic resources of the Rhön goats so that this breed can be backbred in the long term .
description
The animals were medium-sized and polled . When fully grown, bucks weighed about 55 kg. Depending on the regional breed, they were gray or black, there were also fawn animals with a black eel line . Another name for the Rhön goat was "polled Rhönschlag".
The goat's meat was of good quality, but according to Carl Kronacher, of small quantities. At six months, a goat brought about ten to twelve kilograms, a kid 14 days from 2.5 to 3 kg of meat. The milk yield of a goat after the kid was four liters per day, later around two liters; the annual output between 450 and 750 liters.
Kronacher also describes the Rhön goat as a healthy breed of goat, in which, for example, tuberculosis almost never occurs and other epidemic diseases are also rather rare.
literature
- Carl Kronacher : Contributions to the knowledge of the Rhön goat. Nagengast, Bamberg 1903 (Bern, University, dissertation, 1902/1903).
- Georg Wilsdorf : Goat breeding with a detailed description of the goat breeds in Germany and Switzerland. 2nd, expanded edition. Paul Parey publishing house, Berlin 1918.
Web links
- Goat profile of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve (PDF; 1.1 MB), accessed on September 19, 2013.
- The Rhön goat . On the page “From the Rhön” , accessed on September 19, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ^ Society for the Preservation of Old and Endangered Pet Breeds eV (GEH) ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 1, 2013
- ↑ Dietmar Stutzer: ... the earth blessed with sheaves, migrating cattle and herds. A short history of farm animals in Bavaria (= booklets on Bavarian history and culture. Vol. 36). House of Bavarian History, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937974-16-3 , p. 52.
- ^ A b Carl Kronacher: Contributions to the knowledge of the Rhön goat. 1903.
- ↑ Annemarie Lindner: Location and marketing potential for traditional livestock breeds in the Rhön biosphere reserve in the context of sustainable development. Lüneburg 2006, p. 24, (Lüneburg, University, diploma thesis; 2006 PDF; 1.4 MB).