Category: Animals

ProfileName: Miss Maple II.Species:Cameroon sheepDate of birth:October 2022Features:brown fur, dark headCharacteristicsIn the novel “Three Bags Full” (Glennkill) by Leonie Swann, Miss Maple is the smartest sheep of the flock who develops amazing skills to solve a murder case. In our flock, Miss Maple II. is one of Zora’s two lambs and runs around the pastures […]

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ProfileName: CordeliaSpecies:Cameroon sheepDate of birth:October 2022Features:brown fur, light-brown headCharacteristicsCordelia is a sheep with a preference for strange words in the novel “Three Bags Full” (Glennkill) by Leonie Swann. We don’t know for sure if this is the case with our Cordelia. In any case, she is one of Zora’s two lambs in our flock and […]

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Wildlife

Drohni, the robin – a quiet and mysterious bird, a happy loner, a thoughtful observer? Nobody know where exactly it lives. It visits the employees when they work in the garden and probably watches the visitors, too. You mostly find it all of a sudden, sitting in the dead hedge or in a blackberry bush. […]

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Fallow deer

Northeast of the landscape park is the enclosure of the fallow deer. There are about ten to twenty bucks (male) and does (female). The enclosure is separated into three fields with a shelter and a water place each. The animals change fields frequently so the plants have a chance to regrow. The lead animal is […]

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Fish

The colorful koi fish, also called “brocaded carp”, originate from Japan and can reach the respectable age of up to 60 years. At first glance they look a bit like goldfish, but they are quite a bit bigger and more slender.They live in the infinity pool and are very sociable animals. They are used to […]

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Cats

The sisters Luna and Amy live at Rietzer Berg since 2019 and have become good mice catchers. If you walk around the property you can often hear their loud, heartbreaking meowing with which they are trying to get your attention. During the day they are mostly found sleeping on the desks in the art barn.The […]

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Runner ducks

The family of runner ducks is free to roam the whole property and currently consists of 9 ducks. The family is growing, but it can happen that one of the ducks comes home too late and is caught by a fox. They spend the whole day slowly waddling across the garden, splashing around in the […]

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Mopple

ProfileName: MoppleSpecies:Cameroon sheepYear of birth:2020At Rietzer Berg:since 2021Features:Brown fur, horns and white legSponsor:Io HoffmannCharacteristicsIn Leonie Swann’s novel “Three Bags Full” (“Glennkill” in German) Mopple (the Whale) is the sheep that remembers everything. In our flock, he is the head ram and easily identified by his horns and white leg. He takes good care of his […]

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George

ProfileName: GeorgeSpecies:Cameroon sheepYear of birth:2021Mother:ZoraFeatures:brown fur, black head, rather bigSponsor:AlmaCharacteristicsIn fact, George is not even a sheep in Leonie Swann’s novel, but the shepherd.In our flock, George is a young ram, son of Zora and Mopple, and a very affectionate sheep that can never get enough attention and follows visitors around to be stroked.How to […]

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Zora

ProfileName: ZoraSpecies:Cameroon sheepYear of birth:2020At Rietzer Berg:since 2021Features:brown fur, black mouthCharacteristicsIn Leonie Swann’s novel “Three Bags Full” (in German: “Glennkill”), Zora is the bravest sheep that always goes on discovery tours. In our flock, she is the mother of George, Miss Maple and Cordelia.How to feed us rightSheepThe sheep find everything they need on the […]

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