Istriana goat

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Istriana
Conservation status FAO (2007): critical [1]
Country of originItaly
Distribution Province of Gorizia
Standard MIPAAF
Usemeat, milk [2]
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    55 kg [3]
  • Female:
    50 kg [4]
Height
  • Male:
    65 cm [3]
  • Female:
    60 cm [4]
Coatwhite
Beardusually bearded
Notes
ears are pointed and erect; crop-eared mutations are seen
  • Goat
  • Capra aegagrus hircus

The Istriana is an endangered breed of domestic goat indigenous to Istria and the Karst regions of the northern Adriatic, from north-east Italy to Croatia and Slovenia. A population of about 100 head was documented in the Italian province of Gorizia in the 1980s; there is no more recent data. [2] In Croatia, where raising any goat not of the Swiss Saanen breed was illegal in the 1940s and 1950s, it has largely disappeared; a study is under way to establish whether it may be recoverable. [5]

In Italy the Istriana is one of the forty-three autochthonous goat breeds of limited distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep- and goat-breeders. [6] [7] No numbers have been recorded in the herd-book for many years; [8] however, a population of 80 was reported to DAD-IS in 2005. [3] Its conservation status in Italy was listed as "critical" by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2007. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 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 Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN   9788850652594. p. 367–68.
  3. 1 2 3 Breed data sheet: Istriana/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed July 2014.
  4. 1 2 Norme tecniche della popolazione caprina "Istriana": standard della razza (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia. Accessed July 2014.
  5. ↑ Tutela della capra in Istria (in Italian). Agencija za ruralni razvoj Istre. Accessed July 2014.
  6. ↑ Strutture Zootecniche (Dec. 2009/712/CE - Allegato 2 - Capitolo 2) (in Italian). Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali. Section I (e). Archived 4 May 2014.
  7. ↑ Le razze ovine e caprine in Italia (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Ufficio centrale libri genealogici e registri anagrafici razze ovine e caprine. Archived 21 September 2013.
  8. ↑ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza M8 Istriana Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed July 2014.
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