Rosset sheep

Rosset
Country of originItaly
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    60–70 kg
  • Female:
    50–55 kg
Wool coloroff-white
Face colorwhite 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]

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