White Park
The White Park (English and White Park Cattle ) or White Park Cattle and English Park Cattle -called beef from England is bred to any particular type of use cattle breed.
The breed is listed as Endangered by the UK Rare Breeds Survival Trust .
description
The animals reach a height at the withers of 130 to 137 centimeters and weigh between 400 and 450 kilograms (cow) and 600 to 700 kilograms (bull). The White Park is pigment-free, whereby the eyes, ears and muzzle are black. This is albinism, which is based on a heat-sensitive tyrosinase, as is also the case with the point mutation in domestic cats .
history
This breed of cattle arose in the park of Chillingham in Northumberland through inbreeding , when the approximately 120 hectare park there was fenced in around 1220 with some white cattle (which are said to have come from the Roman occupiers) (see also Chillingham cattle ).
Charles Darwin subjected this herd to a long-term study in the course of his research on the theory of evolution from 1862 onwards.
Duration
The total population of the breed amounts to a few hundred suckler cows , several bulls and offspring worldwide . There are breeding stocks in the country of origin Great Britain as well as in North America, Denmark, Germany and Australia. The most famous White Park breeding herd in Germany is located in the Warder Ark in Schleswig-Holstein. The breed key is WP 35.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Breed description cattle: White Park. In: Central Documentation of Animal Genetic Resources in Germany (TGRDEU). Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food, accessed on August 6, 2015 .
- ↑ White park cattle - shelter for Bonnie and her ancestors
- ↑ Rare Breeds Survival Trust watchlist ( memento of the original from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 7, 2015
- ^ Sheila Schmutz: Genetics of Coat Color Patterns in Cattle. White. Status: January 19, 2005
- ^ White Park Cattle Society Ltd Breeding Association
- ^ A b Oklahoma State University, Department of Animal Science: Breeds of Livestock - White Park. ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2008 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.
- ↑ Warder's Ark: English Park Cattle - Origin and Stock.
