#LAKENVELDER 😍 The sheetfielder is a bovine breed that is particularly recognizable by the white band between the front and hind legs around the chest and back of a further black or red animal, the cloth field drawing. However, there are many other features that the animal must possess in order to be a real cloth field.
Although it is sometimes claimed abroad that it is originally a Dutch breed, this has not been proven and therefore uncertain. [source?] This is because the registration was not yet conclusive at the time, studbooks, eartags and identification and registration did not exist yet. It is likely that the cloth fielder is a Dutch breed. The cloth fielder is an ancient race. Already in the 12th century, in the form of a description, in the Netherlands mention was made of cloth fields. The earliest known image is a painting from about 1450.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, 'park bovines', as cloth fielders are also called, were mainly kept on the outskirts of landadel and patrician. With the largely disappearance of these estates in the 20th century, the cloth fielder was threatened with extinction, and not for the first time. At the lowest point, there were about 300 sheetfield cattle throughout the Netherlands.

Cloth Fielders