Vissana

Vissana
Conservation statuspossibly extinct
Country of originItaly
DistributionMarche, Tuscany, Umbria
Usetriple-purpose: meat, milk, wool
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    50–55 kg
  • Female:
    40–45 kg
Height
  • Male:
    70 cm
  • Female:
    60 cm
Wool colorwhite
Face colorwhite, sometimes marked with brown or grey
Notes
triple-purpose, meat, milk and wool

The Vissana is a breed of domestic sheep from the province of Macerata, in the Marche in central Italy.[1] It may be extinct.[2] It takes its name from the comune of Visso in the Monti Sibillini, and is or was raised mostly in that area, extending also into Umbria and Tuscany; herds under transhumant management formerly over-wintered in Lazio .[2] Cross-breeding with the Comisana, the Sarda and the Sopravissana may have contributed to a substantial decline in breed numbers which was noted in the 1980s.[2] The Vissana 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 1983 the breed numbered about 1000. A total number for the breed has not been recorded in the herdbook for many years.[4] Numbers have not been reported to DAD-IS since 2000.[1]

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