English Spot

The English Pinto is a small ( 2.50 to 3.25 kg) rabbit breed.

Appearance and characteristics of the English Pinto

The English pinto heard as the German giant piebald, skewbald, and the Rheinische Post or Czech Pinto to check point races, but shows another drawing picture than this. The head pattern is similar to that of the other check point races, it includes the snout ( the so-called butterfly ), the narrow but equally wide eyes skirt which both sides back points and the possible sharply defined drawing ears. The butterfly sits on tip of nose and grasps them with his wings the snout to above the mouth. The lower jaw should be as white. To hull drawing belongs to the dorsal stripe, which, beginning, as narrow as a brush stroke on the backbone runs along immediately behind the ears up to the flower spike. The so-called chain drawing also begins immediately behind the ear roots. It extends in the form of fine points dual row curved or slightly oblique to the thighs and represents the transition to the side drawing represents the pea possible side spots cover the leg game there. Like the other point Check also that English Pinto is spalterbig. Mating -spec animals with each other resulting in 25 % monochrome animals, 50 % and 25 % type Check the so-called Light Check. The mostly non-viable Bright Check show only a partial dorsal stripe and no side drawing. This inheritance is caused by the factor for Punktscheckung ( German Symbol k / K, English en / En), which is linked to a so-called lethal factor, which means that light can check in have a significantly reduced viability. The English Pinto is in the colors black, blue, thüringer color and tri-color recognized.

The corresponding Erbformeln are:

• Black: ABCDgK / ABCDgk ( German symbolism ) or ABCDE s / ABCDE En ( English symbolism )
• Blue: ABCdgK / ABCdgk ( German symbolism ) or en ABCDE / ABCDE En ( English symbolism )
• Thuringian -color: AbCDgK / AbCDgk ( German symbolism ) or ABCDE En / ABCDE en (english symbolism )
• Tricolor: AbjCDgK / AbjCDgk ( German symbolism ) or aBCDej En / aBCDej en (english symbolism )

History of breed

Translation:

After the first check thorn rabbit should have been gray and white, the gray color impact is also now approved yet in England. 1887 showed A. Towsend in Leeds black and white piebald English, in the same year, the madagascar or Thuringian color was known. The first special club for this breed was on 28 January 1891 in Liverpool, the first specialty show in which several color varieties have already been shown, found in 1892 in Mytholmroyd instead. Franke cites Luke Shaw and his writing "The English Rabbit", after the English Pinto emerged from ordinary gray - white country rabbits.

The first export English piebald after Germany took place in 1900 by Fendwyk from Grimsby. The first German standard was published in 1902 by Hans Ott from Bamberg and Leon Coutain from Gmunden.

The then standard demanded an animal with significantly larger spots, the sides covered much more than is the case with the animals today. The size of the animals was 4.5 kg in size with the context of today's mid-sized breeds.

Today the English breed is a breed that shows a certain decrease, so 2003 264 animals were shown in four color varieties on the national show, compared with 498 animals at the National Show in 1995.

Similar breeds

In particular, in the head drawing matches the English pinto with the other check point races, it differs from them significantly in the drawing page.