Vissana

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Vissana
Conservation statuspossibly extinct
Country of originItaly
Distribution Marche, Tuscany, Umbria
Usetriple-purpose: meat, milk, wool
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    50–55 kg
  • Female:
    40–45 kg
Height
  • Male:
    70 cm
  • Female:
    60 cm
Wool colorwhite
Face colorwhite, sometimes marked with brown or grey
Notes
triple-purpose, meat, milk and wool

The Vissana is a breed of domestic sheep from the province of Macerata, in the Marche in central Italy. [1] It may be extinct. [2] It takes its name from the comune of Visso in the Monti Sibillini, and is or was raised mostly in that area, extending also into Umbria and Tuscany; herds under transhumant management formerly over-wintered in Lazio . [2] Cross-breeding with the Comisana, the Sarda and the Sopravissana may have contributed to a substantial decline in breed numbers which was noted in the 1980s. [2] The Vissana 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. [3]

In 1983 the breed numbered about 1000. A total number for the breed has not been recorded in the herdbook for many years. [4] Numbers have not been reported to DAD-IS since 2000. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Breed data sheet: Vissana/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN   9788850652594. pp. 304–305.
  3. ↑ Le razze ovine e caprine in Italia (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Ufficio centrale libri genealogici e registri anagrafici razze ovine e caprine, page 82. Archived 21 September 2013.
  4. ↑ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza R7 VISSANA Anno 2012 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed September 2013.


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