White Park

The White Park Cattle ( White Park abbreviated ) or White Park Cattle or English White Park Cattle -called beef from England is a bred to any particular usage breed of cattle.

Description

The animals reach a height at the withers 130-137 cm and 400-450 kilograms ( cow) and of 600 to 700 kilograms ( bull ) difficult. The White Park is free of pigment, the eyes, the ears and the muzzle are black. It is to albinism, based on a heat-sensitive tyrosinase, as is the case with the point mutation of the domestic cat.

History

The result this breed of cattle is in the park of Chillingham in Northumberland by inbreeding, as in 1220, the local approximately 120 -acre park along with some white cattle (which are still to come from the Roman occupiers ) was fenced ( see also Chillingham cattle).

Charles Darwin has undergone these foci in the course of his research on the theory of evolution in 1862 a long-term study.

Stock

The total stock of the breed worldwide amounts to a few hundred mother cows, bulls and more offspring. Breeding stocks are in the country of origin Great Britain and North America, Denmark, Germany and Australia. The most famous White Park breeding herd in Germany is located in the Arche Warder in Schleswig -Holstein. The race is key WP 35