Animal World

The extremely rare Austrian-Hungarian White Baroque Donkey is one of the faunal highlights at Schoss Hof.

Prince Eugene and his soldiers were familiar with camels from their combats against the Ottomans.

Lipizzans, or Lipizzaner, owe their name to the stud in Lipica, Slovenia, founded in 1590.

The name of these rare heavy horses derives from the Roman province of Noricum, which covered a part of the Austrian Alpine regions where these horses originated.

Their name derives from the Scottish Shetland Islands, their original home. In proportion to their size they are among the strongest horses in the world.

Fourhorn goats are extremely rare and are a special attraction, just as they were in the Baroque era.

The Racka is an ancient and protected breed of sheep. The robust horn-bearing animals have particularly thick black or white wool.

This extremely rare bird originated in India and has been bred in Europe since the eighteenth century.

These goats were originally kept by mountain farmers in Bulgaria.

This species of sheep takes its name from the dark pigmentation around their eyes.

This brown-and-white spotted sheep – sometimes boasting 2-6 horns – is kept both for landscape conservation and for wool. Its name comes from the Bible, according to which the shepherd Jacob was given the spotted animals for his herds (1st Book of Moses, chapter 30, verse 32).

The ancestor of this Hungarian warm-blooded horse breed was the Anglo-Norman Nonius, which arrived at the Hungarian State Stud in Mezöhegyes in 1815 in the form of a 5year old male, which had been looted from France during the Napoleonic Wars.

Llamas and alpacas were domesticated in South America around the year 3000 B.C.

Llamas and alpacas are technically camels, but originate from South America.

They were taken to central Europe by Romanian shepherds in the 13th century.

This Styrian breed has become very rare.

Colourful, vital and easy to breed, this accurately describes the Stein Chicken.

Pet rabbits are the domesticated form of the wild rabbit. They are kept as animals for the production of meat and fur but also as a pet.

The Ouessantsheep, also known as Breton mini sheep, is the smallest sheep in Europe with a withers height of approx. 45 cm.

The Catalan donkey is a breed of large domestic donkey from Catalonia in north-eastern Spain between the Mediterranean coast and the Pyrenees.

Minipigs are common pigs that are bred in smaller size.

The highly endangered Blobe Goat is an old and long established breed of mountain goat in the border regions between North and South Tirol.