Garfagnina Bianca

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Garfagnina Bianca
Conservation status FAO (2007): critical-maintained [1]
Country of originItaly
Distribution Garfagnana, Tuscany
Standard MIPAAF
Usedual-purpose, milk and meat
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    50–55 kg [2]
  • Female:
    40–45 kg [2]
Height
  • Male:
    65–70 cm [2]
  • Female:
    60–65 cm [2]
Wool colorwhite
Face colorwhite
Horn statushorned in both sexes

The Garfagnina Bianca is a breed of small domestic sheep from the historic area of the Garfagnana, the mountainous northern part of the province of Lucca, in Tuscany in central Italy. [3] [4] It shares common origins with the Cornella Bianca, Massese and Zerasca. [5] [6] It 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. [6]

Breed numbers declined drastically in the second half of the twentieth century. In 1961 there were more than 50,000, distributed over much of central Italy; a census in 1983 identified fewer than 50 pure-bred specimens. In 2013 total numbers for the breed were 356. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Rischkowsky, Barbara; Pilling, Dafydd, eds. (2007). "Annex: Breeds currently recorded in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources" (PDF). The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: FAO. ISBN   978-92-5-105762-9.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Norme tecniche della popolazione ovina “Garfagnina Bianca”: standard della razza (in Italian). Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali. Accessed May 2014.
  3. ↑ Breed data sheet: Garfagnina Bianca. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2013.
  4. ↑ Daniele Bigi (2007). Razze zootecniche in pericolo di estinzione: la pecora Garfagnina Bianca (in Italian). Vita in campagna 2007 (10): 49.
  5. ↑ Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN   9788850652594. pp. 224–25.
  6. 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. 58. Accessed September 2013.
  7. ↑ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza G2 Garfagnina Bianca Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed September 2013.


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