Istriana goat
| Conservation status | FAO (2007): critical[1] |
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| Country of origin | Italy |
| Distribution | Province of Gorizia |
| Standard | MIPAAF |
| Use | meat, milk[2] |
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| Weight | |
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| Coat | white |
| Beard | usually bearded |
| Notes | |
| ears are pointed and erect; crop-eared mutations are seen | |
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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 FAO in 2007.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Barbara Rischkowsky, D. Pilling (eds.) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources[dead link], annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Accessed July 2014.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c Breed data sheet: Istriana/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed July 2014.
- ^ a b Norme tecniche della popolazione caprina "Istriana": standard della razza (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia. Accessed July 2014.
- ^ Tutela della capra in Istria (in Italian). Agencija za ruralni razvoj Istre. Accessed July 2014.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. 100. Accessed July 2014.
- ^ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza M8 Istriana Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed July 2014.
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