Brogna

Brogna
Conservation status FAO (2007): endangered[1]
Other names
  • Brogne
  • Brognola
  • Locale veronese
  • Ross-a-vis
  • Testa rossa
Country of origin Italy
Distribution province of Verona
Standard MIPAAF
Use triple-purpose, milk, meat and wool
Traits
Weight Male: 60 kg[2]
  Female: 47 kg[2]
Height Male: 67 cm[2]
  Female: 57 cm[2]
Skin color pinkish
Wool color white
Face color white with red markings
Horn status hornless in both sexes
Sheep
Ovis aries


The Brogna or Brogne is a breed of domestic sheep from the province of Verona, in the Veneto in north-eastern Italy.[3] The origins of the breed are unknown;[4] the name may derive from that of suppressed comune of Breonio, now part of Fumane.[2] The Brogna is raised principally in Lessinia, the plateau which extends from the Monti Lessini to the Po valley, in the comuni of Grezzana, Illasi, Mezzane di Sotto, Rovere Veronese, Selva di Progno and Tregnago,[5] an area which coincides with an area of Nordic Cimbrian language and culture.[6] The Brogna 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]

In the 1980s 50 head were counted and the Brogna was considered close to extinction.[5] In 2013 total numbers for the breed were 2193.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Barbara Rischkowsky, D. Pilling (eds.) (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: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Accessed May 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Breed data sheet: Brogne/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed May 2014.
  3. ↑ Norme tecniche della popolazione ovina “Brogna (Brogne)”: standard della razza (in Italian). Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali. Accessed May 2014.
  4. ↑ J. Errante, L.A. Brambilla, M. Corti, E. Pastore, R. Leonarduzzi (2006). Le razze ovine autoctone a rischio del Valle d'Aosta, Lombardia, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia (in Italian). Associazione RARE. Accessed May 2014.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN 9788850652594. p. 198–99.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 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. 50–51. Accessed September 2013.
  7. ↑ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza F5 Brogne Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed September 2013.