 Its original range was the districts of Diepholz, Nienburg and Rotenburg.The "Diepholz Moorschnucke" is protected as a regional breed and was registered in European Union's list of products with a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO).The White Polled Heath eats wild plants such as purple moor grass, sedge, sorrel, fungi, mosses, lichens and herbaceous plants such as common heather, bell heather, cross-leaved heath, crowberry, cranberry, bog bilberry, bilberry, pine and birch.