Lariana

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Lariana
Conservation status FAO (2007): not at risk [1]
Other namesCapra di Livo
Country of originItaly
Distribution Province of Como
Standard MIPAAF
Usemainly meat [2] : 337 
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    60 kg [2] : 337 
  • Female:
    45–50 kg [2] : 337 
Height
  • Female:
    72 cm [3]
Coatvery variable
Horn statushorned or hornless
  • Goat
  • Capra aegagrus hircus

The Lariana or Capra di Livo is an indigenous breed of domestic goat from the province of Como, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is raised in the Livo valley and throughout the western Lario; the two names of the breed derive from these places. It is of Alpine type and has highly variable characteristics. [2] : 336  Management is extensive: the animals are kept on alpine pasture from May to December, and brought under cover for the winter months. [4]

The Lariana is one of the forty-three autochthonous Italian 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. [5] [6] At the end of 2013 the registered population was variously reported as 2777 [7] and as 3091. [8] A breed named Val di Livo, from the same area and with the same characteristics, is also separately reported to DAD-IS; [9] it was listed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2007 as extinct. [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 3 4 Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN   9788850652594.
  3. ↑ Norme tecniche della popolazione caprina "Lariana o di Livo": standard della razza (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia. Archived 14 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Lorenzo Noè, Alessandro Gaviraghi, Andrea D'Angelo, Adriana Bonanno, Adriana Di Trana, Lucia Sepe, Salvatore Claps, Giovanni Annicchiarico, Nicola Bacciu (2005). Le razze caprine d'Italia (in Italian); in: Giuseppe Pulina (2005). L' alimentazione della capra da latte. Bologna: Avenue Media. ISBN   9788886817493. p. 381–435. Archived 5 October 2014.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza Q0 Lariana o di Livo Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed June 2014.
  8. ↑ Breed data sheet: Lariana o Di Livio/Italy [sic]. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed June 2014.
  9. ↑ Breed data sheet: Val di Livo/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed June 2014.
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