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O n February 12th, a group of Sayaguesa arrived at the herd in Kloster Lorsch, Hessen (Germany). They number four individuals, three young cows born in 2015 and a one year old bull and are part of the Lorsch-Bielefeld project. The Sayaguesa were imported from the Netherlands and are, unless I am wrong, from the same breeder as those of the Tauros Project and recent imports for the Lippeaue.  The young bull is going to form a new herd together with Hungarian Grey cows expected for summer 2016. The young cows, however, will not partake in breeding until 2017 because of their young age.  As you can see in the news entry of the Auerrind Project's webpage, they are beautiful animals. You can see that the cows are not totally black but have shades of brown instead, some more than others, probably thanks to Alistana-Sanabresa influence. I expect them to become good-looking animals, like their relatives at other locations are. And I am very much looking forward to see the first cross...

U sing stock lists of the Taurus cattle population in the nature reserve Lippeaue, Germany, of the years 2015, 2013 and 2011 I was able to track down the full genealogy of a number of Taurus individuals to their last un-crossed ancestors. I have been planning to visualize that since a few days after my return from the Lippeaue in 2015 (see here). Thanks to an extensive photo archive that I was provided by Matthias Scharf from the ABU, I was able to do five complete genealogical tables showing the ancestry of 24 crossbred animals, about the half of which are still present in the herd. I used the program GIMP to make these tables simply by arranging them in the correct order and putting lines on them, since I don’t know of a program that would be better for visualizing such genealogical trees.   Now I am going to cover the respective trees and give some information on those individuals that have not been covered on the blog here. I have been planning to do a post on older, not former...