Saltasassi

Saltasassi
Conservation status
Country of originItaly
Distribution
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    60 kg[3]: 72 
  • Female:
    45–50 kg[3]: 72 
Height
  • Male:
    60–65 cm[3]: 72 
  • Female:
    55 cm[3]: 72 
Wool colourwhite
Face colourwhite

The Saltasassi is an Italian breed of upland sheep, reared for meat. It originates in the provinces of Verbano Cusio Ossola[4]: 268  and Novara in the northern part of Piemonte, in north-west Italy.[2] It is one of the forty-two autochthonous local sheep breeds of limited distribution for which a herd-book is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep-breeders.[3]

The population in 1983 was estimated at 2500.[4][2] In 2013 the total number for the breed was not recorded; in 2012 it was 37.[5] A study conducted by the region of Piemonte in the year 2000 found the Saltasassi to be virtually extinct.[4]: 269  At the end of 2020 the population numbered six head – five ewes and a ram; in 2025 the conservation status of the breed was listed in DAD-IS as "at risk/critical".[2]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c d Breed data sheet: Saltasassi / Italy (Sheep). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e Le razze ovine e caprine in Italia (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Ufficio centrale libri genealogici e registri anagrafici razze ovine e caprine. Archived 21 September 2013.
  4. ^ a b c Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN 9788850652594.
  5. ^ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza G0 SALTASASSI Anno 2012 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Archived 27 September 2013.


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