Rheinische Schecke
The Rheinische Schecke is a medium-sized (3.75 to 4.5 kg) breed of rabbits .
Appearance and characteristics of the Rheinische Schecke
The head drawing is similar to that of the other spotted 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 drawing that is 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, starting 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 badges of the Rheinische Schecke are two-tone yellow and black, all badges with the exception of the cheek points should have both colors.
The Rheinische Schecke belongs like the German giant check , the English check and the small check to the point chick races. Like the other point chicks, the Rheinische Schecke is split-sized. Mating of type-appropriate animals leads to 25% Japanese-colored 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 point check (German symbol k / K, English en / En), which is linked to a so-called lethal factor, which leads to the fact that Hellscheck have a significantly reduced viability. For animal welfare reasons, it is therefore recommended to mate monochrome with animals of the appropriate type.
The corresponding hereditary formula is:
AbjCDgK / AbjCDgk (German symbols) or aBCDej En / aBCDej en (English symbols).
History of the breed
Like its name, the breed comes from the Rhineland. The post office clerk Josef Heintz from Grevenbroich bred Japanese . By crossing a gray and white slaughter rabbit with a Japanese rabbit from Heintz, his neighbor received a three-colored piebald animal that Heintz asked for. With this animal he began to breed a three-colored piebald breed around 1902 , which he exhibited in 1905 . At first there were discussions about different ways of breeding the Rhenish piebald, so some breeders preferred animals with white noses instead of butterflies, others sought a chain drawing similar to the English piebald until they agreed on the drawing of the giant piebald .
Similar races
The English piebald in Japanese-white has the same genetic formula, but is slightly smaller (2.50 to 3.25 kg) and shows a different distribution of the pattern.
In the evaluation regulations for pedigree rabbits in socialist countries, the Rheinische Schecke was referred to as a three-color check.
The Czech pinto is a bit lighter and has a three-tone color similar to the Rhenish pinto. This color was bred from 1910 to 1920 by Vaclav Hruby from Pilsen , completely independently of the Rheinische Schecke , and was originally called the Pilsener Schecke until it was added to the Czech check as the color.
literature
- J. Fingerland: The Czech piebald , in: The Small Animal Breeder - Rabbits 8/1999 ISSN 0941-0848
- A. Franke: Rheinische Schecken , in: The small animal breeder - rabbits 3/1997 ISSN 0941-0848
- Friedrich Joppich: The rabbit , Berlin, VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, 1967
- W. Lutz: Rheinische Schecken , in: The small animal breeder - Rabbit 21/2006 ISSN 1613-6357
- Wolfgang Schlolaut: The big book of the rabbit . 2nd edition, DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt 1998 ISBN 3-7690-0554-6
- Starke / Wischer: Practical rabbit breeding , 13th edition, licensed edition from Verlag Dr. F. Poppe, Leipzig im Neumann-Verlag, Radebeul and Berlin, 1949