Earlier this year, the Heck/Taurus herd at Fahrendahl (https://www.auerochsen-fahrendahl.de/) was joined by three individuals from the Auerrind project: Costanza (the Chianina x Watussi cow), Henry (a son of Claus and Doro) plus a young cross cow. Now new breeding herds have been assembled:
The video shows one of the new breeding groups with the sire Ernie (not to be confused with Erni, the Steinberg/Wörth cow), who has Taurus influence and is estimated to be 150cm tall at the withers. Ernie's herd not only has Constanza in it, but also the extremely beautiful Taurus cow Eliese from the Lippeaue (a daughter of Laniel and a daughter of Londo and Lerida).
Another breeding herd this year is that of Elias - a son of Eliese and Egon (a Steinberg/Wörth-influenced Heck bull) with a top ancestry and great potential (and quite an aesthetic look, I think).
The third breeding herd is with the bull Kasimir, a son of Dominator and Bionade! He is joined by Ella, a daughter of Egon and Eliese. What I love about this young cow is that the Chianina influence is recognizable yet it still has the dense and shaggy Heck cattle winter coat (you can see it here f.e.). They share the herd with some beautiful classical Heck cattle cows.
I am amazed by these great animals and the potential of these combinations is tremendous. The Fahrendahl herds are definitely among the most promising breeding-back herds today.
A few days ago a video of the fourth and final herd was posted on youtube. This herd contains among others Auerrind bull calf Henry, Auerrind cow Brava (Chianina x Sayagusa), two Taurus cows from the Lippeaue and two long-legged Heck cows. Breeding bull is Nabi, a pure Heck bull from the Steinberg/Wörth herd who is very small (135 cm), but has impressively thick and long horns with a rather good curvature. The combination is very promising, I think, with the tall cows hopefully adding size and the Taurus and Auerrind cows hopefully adding a good horn curvature. The video begins and ends with promotion of the breeding-back blog.
ReplyDeleteAnother, unrelated matter: I came across two videos posted three years ago on Walter Frisch’s youtube channel, showing the Nantesbuch herd, i.e. the remnant of the former Steinberg/Wörth herd. I hope the videos were new when they were posted; they come without a description. Erni, or a cow looking very much like Erni, is still part of the herd. You may of course already know these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX9BLiMcUpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Ax-dGBQ9o
Herd book says Erni was killed in 2019. Don't know the circumstances. Her granddaughter Edelweiss is still part of the Nantesbuch herd though.
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