Passeirer Gebirgsziege

Passeirer Gebirgsziege
Conservation status FAO (2007): no data[1]
Other names Capra Passiria
Country of origin Italy
Distribution Autonomous Province of Bolzano
Standard MIPAAF
Use formerly milk, now mainly meat[2]
Traits
Weight Male: 75 kg[3]
  Female: 60 kg[3]
Wool color variable, sometimes with Swiss markings
Horn status horned in both sexes
Goat
Capra aegagrus hircus

The Passeirer Gebirgsziege or Capra Passiria is an indigenous breed of domestic goat from the Passeier valley or Val Passiria, in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano in north-eastern Italy. It is raised in that valley and in the neighbouring Sarntal (Val Sarentino), Schnalstal (Val Senales) and upper Wipptal (Alta Vall'Isarco) valleys; it is also present in neighbouring areas of southern Austria. While of Alpine type, it is morphologically quite distinct from the Alpina Comune goat breed.[2] Management is extensive: the animals are kept on alpine pasture from early spring to late autumn.[4]

The Passeirer Gebirgsziege 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 3354[7] and as 2531.[8]

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 June 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN 9788850652594. p. 382–83.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Norme tecniche della popolazione caprina "Passeirer Gebirgsziege (Capra Passiria)": standard della razza (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia. Accessed June 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.
  5. ↑ Strutture Zootecniche (Dec. 2009/712/CE - Allegato 2 - Capitolo 2) (in Italian). Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali. Section I (e). Accessed June 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. p. 106. Accessed June 2014.
  7. ↑ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza N9 Passeirer Gebirgziege Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed June 2014.
  8. ↑ Breed data sheet: Passeirer Gebirgziege/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed June 2014.