Rosset sheep

Rosset
Country of origin Italy
Traits
Weight
  • Male: 60–70 kg
  • Female: 50–55 kg
Wool color off-white
Face color white with reddish markings,
black tip to nose,
black "spectacles"
Notes
triple-purpose: meat, milk and wool

The Rosset is a breed of domestic sheep from the Valle d'Aosta in north-west Italy.[1] It is morphologically similar to the Savoiarda breed from Piemonte and to the Thônes et Marthod breed from Savoie; it may have been influenced also by the Blanc des Alpes and the Biellese.[2] It 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 2013 the total number recorded for the breed was 919.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Breed data sheet: Rosset/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2013.
  2. ↑ Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN 9788850652594. p. 266–267.
  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. p. 70. Accessed September 2013.
  4. ↑ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza G9 ROSSET Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed September 2013.


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