Passeirer Gebirgsziege

Passeirer Gebirgsziege

Conservation status	FAO (2007): no data[1]: 67  DAD-IS (2023): not at risk[2]
Other names	Capra Passiria
Country of origin	Italy
Distribution	Autonomous Province of Bolzano
Standard	MIPAAF
Use	formerly milk, now mainly meat[3]: 382
Traits
Weight	Male: 75 kg[4] Female: 60 kg[4]
Coat	variable, sometimes with Swiss markings
Horn status	horned in both sexes
Goat Capra aegagrus hircus

The Passeirer Gebirgsziege or Capra Passiria is an Italian breed of domestic goat indigenous to the Passeier valley or Val Passiria, in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano in north-eastern Italy. It is raised in that valley and in the neighbouring Sarntal (Val Sarentino), Schnalstal (Val Senales) and upper Wipptal (Alta Vall'Isarco) valleys; it is also present in neighbouring areas of southern Austria. While of Alpine type, it is morphologically quite distinct from the Alpina Comune goat breed.^[3]: 382 Management is extensive: the animals are kept on alpine pasture from early spring to late autumn.^[5]

The Passeirer Gebirgsziege is one of the forty-three autochthonous Italian 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]: 106} At the end of 2013 the registered population was variously reported as 3354^[8] and as 2531.^[9] The population reported for 2021 was just over 11000 head, and the conservation status of the breed in 2023 was 'not at risk'.^[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. Breed data sheet: Passeirer Gebirgziege / Italy (Goat). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed February 2023.
3. Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN 9788850652594.
4. Norme tecniche della popolazione caprina "Passeirer Gebirgsziege (Capra Passiria)": standard della razza (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia. Accessed June 2014.
5. Lorenzo Noè, Alessandro Gaviraghi, Andrea D'Angelo, Adriana Bonanno, Adriana Di Trana, Lucia Sepe, Salvatore Claps, Giovanni Annicchiarico, Nicola Bacciu (2005). Le razze caprine d'Italia (in Italian). In: Giuseppe Pulina (2005). L' alimentazione della capra da latte. Bologna: Avenue Media. ISBN 9788886817493. p. 381–435. Archived 5 October 2014.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Consistenze Provinciali della Razza N9 Passeirer Gebirgziege Anno 2013 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed June 2014.
9. Breed data sheet: Passeirer Gebirgziege/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed June 2014.