Cold-blooded breeder honored for preserving native livestock breeds

As part of the FN Federal Coldblood Show, three coldblood breeding facilities were honored for their contribution to the preservation of endangered livestock breeds. The Information and Coordination Center for Biological Diversity (IBV) together with the German Equestrian Federation (FN) honored the breeding facilities Familie zum Berge-Utspann GmbH & Co KG , the coldblood breeding Faßbender and the breeding community Meyer zu Hücker .

Genetic material from their stallions of the Rhenish German Coldblood and Schleswiger Coldblood breeds has already been stored in the German Gene Bank of Farm Animals . This cryopreservation serves to safeguard genetic diversity in the long term and can help replenish the population in the event of epidemics or population declines.

The " National Programme for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Animal Genetic Resources " of 2003 provides for both the conservation of animals on farms (in situ) and ex situ conservation outside of the natural environment. The German Gene Bank of Farm Animals, founded in 2016, manages these genetic resources and is located at the Friedrich Loeffler Institute in Mariensee.