An example of re-breeding (backbreeding, re-domestication?) to the ancestor of productive (livestock) cattle
Our cattle descends from a wild ox ("Ur") which was living in the middle-european woods until the 16th century. It was bigger than this backbreeding attempt, and the original colour was rather black.
This cattle are living as wild, but for security fenced in a wide area. Their task is to maintain the vegetation ("landscaping") in the nature reserve and to prevent trees from capturing the landscape.
These animals are as shy as real wild ones and let me not come closer than about 50m of distance. Otherwise they would escape immediately like any other wild cattle. So they have been watching me very intensively if I'm approaching or not :-)
An example of re-breeding (backbreeding, re-domestication?) to the ancestor of productive (livestock) cattle
Our cattle descends from a wild ox ("Ur") which was living in the middle-european woods until the 16th century. It was bigger than this backbreeding attempt, and the original colour was rather black.
This cattle are living as wild, but for security fenced in a wide area. Their task is to maintain the vegetation ("landscaping") in the nature reserve and to prevent trees from capturing the landscape.
These animals are as shy as real wild ones and let me not come closer than about 50m of distance. Otherwise they would escape immediately like any other wild cattle. So they have been watching me very intensively if I'm approaching or not :-)