Trimeticcia di Segezia

Trimeticcia di Segezia
Country of origin Italy
Traits
Weight Male: 65–70 kg
  Female: 60–70 kg
Wool color white
Face color white
Notes
triple-purpose, meat, milk and wool
Sheep
Ovis aries


The Trimeticcia di Segezia is a recently created breed of domestic sheep from Puglia in southern Italy.[1][2] It is named for the town of Segezia, a frazione of Foggia, where it was created at the Istituto Sperimentale per la Zootecnia, an experimental breeding station of the Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali, the Italian ministry of agriculture.[2] "Trimeticcia" means "three-way hybrid": the breed was created by cross-breeding Gentile di Puglia ewes with French Île-de-France rams, and then crossing the resultant hybrid with Württemberger rams; the resulting stock was selectively bred for adaptation to the climate and conditions of the area.[3] The range of the breed is principally the plain of the Tavoliere delle Puglie, but extends also into Molise.[2] The Trimeticcia di Segezia 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 there were about 4000 head. There are no recent figures.[2] In 2013 no total number for the breed was recorded in the herdbook.[4] In 2005 a population of 188 was reported to DAD-IS.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Breed data sheet: Trimeticcia di Segezia/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN 9788850652594. p. 292–293.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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. 79. Accessed September 2013.
  4. ↑ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza TR TRIMETICCIA DI SEGEZIA Anno 2012 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed September 2013.