International Species Chat with German Working Cattle Group

The Livestock Conservancy

Special Guests Claus Kropp and Peter Herold join Jeannette Beranger and Brittany Sweeney to chat about draft animals, including oxen and horses, in Germany. Learn more about the group at https://www.zugrinder.de/en/home.html Claus Kropp is manager of the Lauresham Laboratory for Experimental Archaeology and currently also President for the International Association of Agricultural Museums (AIMA). Both during his full-time museum position as well as on his private farming operation, Claus is working with draft cattle. He joined the German Oxdriver Working Group in 2012 and organized the first World Congress on Draft Animals (Draft Animals in the Past, Present and Future) in 2021. Dr. Peter Herold, Ph.D., together with his family drives a small organic farm with milking goats, a cheese dairy, some laying hens and two (sometimes draught-) horses near Heilbronn, Germany. He studied Nature Conservation Biology and some Organic Farming at Marburg and Gießen Universities in the 1990s and continued with a PhD-thesis on the potential of modern draught horse use in organic farming at Kassel University. From 2005 - 2012 he was the secretary of the German Draught Horse Association (www.ig-zugpferde.de). Big thank you to Manna Pro for sponsoring International Species Chats this month! Learn more about how Manna Pro is Nurturing Life at https://www.mannapro.com/promotions/nurturing-life-2022 A few resource links from the recording, courtesy of Dr. Peter Herold - German Draft Horse Association: www.ig-zugpferde.de - European umbrella organization FECTU: www.fectu.org - European Horse Progress Days “PferdeStark”: www.pferdestark.net; get an impression from 2017s event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcx8BJxzifA; next event will be held the last weekend of August, 2023 - German Draft Horse Magazine “Starke Pferde”: www.starke-pferde.com - Database modern horse-drawn machinery: http://modern-horse-power.org/Horse%20drawn%20equipment.html - Paul Schmit, Luxemburg, maybe one of the most innovative entrepreneurs who also does scientific research on modern equipment all over Europe: www.schaffmatpaerd.com - Christoph Schmitz, German inventor of modern equipment: https://pferdezugtechnik.jimdo.com/leistungen/maschinenbau/