Garessina

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Garessina
Conservation status FAO (2007): not listed [1]
Other names
  • Muma
  • Razza di Garessio
Country of originItaly
Distribution province of Cuneo
Standard MIPAAF
Usetriple-purpose, milk, meat and wool
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    50–55 kg [2]
  • Female:
    45–50 kg [2]
Height
  • Male:
    60–65 cm [2]
  • Female:
    55–60 cm [2]
Skin colorpinkish
Wool colorstraw-white
Face colorwhite
Horn statushornless in both sexes

The Garessina or Muma is a breed of small sheep from the Garessina, the area surrounding Garessio in the province of Cuneo, in Piemonte in north-west Italy. [3] It is raised principally in the valleys of the Tanaro, its affluent the Negrone, and the Casotto; it is not raised commercially, but kept as a family sheep. [4] [5] It has been influenced by Spanish Merino and French Alpine breeds. The wool is of fine quality. [4] The Garessina is one of the forty-two autochthonous local sheep breeds of limited distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep-breeders. [5]

Under the national Piano Sviluppo Regionale or regional development plan for 2000–2006, a subsidy was available for those who kept Garessina sheep; in 2004 it was claimed for 64 head. [6] In 2013 the total number recorded for the breed was 110. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to: The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN   9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Norme tecniche della popolazione ovina “Garessina”: standard della razza (in Italian). Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali. Accessed May 2014.
  3. ↑ Breed data sheet: Garessina/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2013.
  4. 1 2 Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN   9788850652594. pp. 222–23.
  5. 1 2 Le razze ovine e caprine in Italia (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Ufficio centrale libri genealogici e registri anagrafici razze ovine e caprine. p. 57. Accessed September 2013.
  6. ↑ J. Errante, L.A. Brambilla, M. Corti, E. Pastore, R. Leonarduzzi (2006). Le razze ovine autoctone a rischio del Valle d'Aosta, Lombardia, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia [ permanent dead link ] (in Italian). Associazione RARE. Accessed May 2014.
  7. ↑ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza G1 Garessina Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed September 2013.


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