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Breed of sheep
Frabosana Conservation status
FAO (2007): not at risk
[1] Other names Country of origin Italy Distribution Standard
MIPAAF Use triple-purpose, principally for milk Weight Height Wool color white Face color white Horn status usually horned
The Frabosana is a
breed of
sheep from the valleys of the
Monregalese , the area around Mondovì in the
province of Cuneo , in
Piemonte in north-west Italy.
[3] It takes its name from the
comuni of
Frabosa Soprana and
Frabosa Sottana , and was once the most numerous sheep breed of Piemonte.
[4]
[5] It is raised in the
Valle Gesso , the
Valle Grana , the
Valle Pesio , the
Valle Vermenagna and the
Valli Monregalesi (all in the
province of Cuneo), and in the
Val Pellice (in the
province of Turin ).
[6] Two types are recognised within the breed, the Roaschino in the
Ligurian Alps , and the slightly smaller Frabosana raised in the area of Mondovì. The Frabosana 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.
[5]
The conservation status of the breed was listed as "not at risk" by the
FAO in 2007.
[1] In 2013 total numbers for the breed were 4284.
[7]
References
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b 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.
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a
b
c
d
Norme tecniche della popolazione ovina “Frabosana”: standard della razza (in Italian). Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali. Accessed May 2014.
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Breed data sheet: Frabosana/Italy . Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2013.
^ Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole.
ISBN
9788850652594 . p. 220–21.
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a
b
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. 56. Accessed September 2013.
^ 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 [
permanent dead link ] (in Italian). Associazione RARE. Accessed May 2014.
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Consistenze Provinciali della Razza F0 Frabosana Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed September 2013.