Istriana goat

Istriana
Conservation statusFAO (2007): critical[1]
Country of originItaly
DistributionProvince of Gorizia
StandardMIPAAF
Usemeat, milk[2]
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    55 kg[3]
  • Female:
    50 kg[4]
Height
  • Male:
    65 cm[3]
  • Female:
    60 cm[4]
Coatwhite
Beardusually bearded
Notes
ears are pointed and erect; crop-eared mutations are seen
  • Goat
  • Capra aegagrus hircus

The Istriana is an endangered breed of domestic goat indigenous to Istria and the Karst regions of the northern Adriatic, from north-east Italy to Croatia and Slovenia. A population of about 100 head was documented in the Italian province of Gorizia in the 1980s; there is no more recent data.[2] In Croatia, where raising any goat not of the Swiss Saanen breed was illegal in the 1940s and 1950s, it has largely disappeared; a study is under way to establish whether it may be recoverable.[5]

In Italy the Istriana is one of the forty-three autochthonous 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.[6][7] No numbers have been recorded in the herd-book for many years;[8] however, a population of 80 was reported to DAD-IS in 2005.[3] Its conservation status in Italy was listed as "critical" by the FAO in 2007.[1]

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