Jonica
| Conservation status | FAO (2007): not at risk[1] |
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| Country of origin | Italy |
| Distribution | |
| Standard | MIPAAF |
| Use | milk |
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| Weight | |
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| Skin colour | unoigmented |
| Hair colour | white[2]: 370 |
| Face colour | white |
| Horn status | both sexes occasionally horned |
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The Jonica is an Italian breed of domestic goat from the province of Taranto, in Puglia in southern Italy.[3] Its origins are uncertain; it is thought to derive from crossing of local varieties with the Maltese breed.[2]: 369 It is one of the eight autochthonous Italian goat breeds for which a genealogical herd-book is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep-breeders.[4]: 32 [5]
In 1998 the total number of the goats was estimated at 20000 head.[2]: 369 At the end of 2013 the registered population was 232.[6]
Use
[edit]It is reared principally for milk. The annual milk yield for pluriparous nannies is some 450–500 litres in a lactation of some 250–270 days; most of it used to make canestrati or cacioricotta.[2]: 370
References
[edit]- ↑ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (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: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN 9788850652594.
- ↑ Breed data sheet: Jonica/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed June 2014.
- ↑ Le razze ovine e caprine in Italia (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Ufficio centrale libri genealogici e registri anagrafici razze ovine e caprine. Accessed June 2014.
- ↑ Strutture Zootecniche (Dec. 2009/712/CE – Allegato 2 – Capitolo 2) (in Italian). Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali. Section I (e). Archived 4 May 2014.
- ↑ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza 90 Jonica Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed June 2014.
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