Trimeticcia di Segezia

Trimeticcia di Segezia
Conservation status
Country of originItaly
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    65–70 kg
  • Female:
    60–70 kg
Wool colourwhite
Face colourwhite
Notes
triple-purpose – meat, milk and wool

The Trimeticcia di Segezia is a modern breed of domestic sheep from Puglia in southern Italy.[3]: 292 [2] It is named for the town of Segezia, a frazione of Foggia, where it was created at the Istituto Sperimentale per la Zootecnia, an experimental breeding station of the Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali, the Italian ministry of agriculture.[3]: 292  "Trimeticcia" means "three-way hybrid": the breed was created by cross-breeding Gentile di Puglia ewes with French Île-de-France rams, and then crossing the resultant hybrid with Württemberger rams; the resulting stock was selectively bred for adaptation to the climate and conditions of the area.[4]: 79  The range of the breed is principally the plain of the Tavoliere delle Puglie, but extends also into Molise.[3]: 292  The Trimeticcia di Segezia 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.[4]: 79 

In 1983 there were about 4000 head.[3]: 293  In 2013 no total number for the breed was recorded in the herd-book.[5] In 2023 a population of 188 was reported to DAD-IS;for 2022 the reported population was 97 head – 92 ewes and 5 rams.[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 Breed data sheet: Trimeticcia di Segezia / Italy (Sheep). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN 9788850652594.
  4. ^ a b 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 September 2013.
  5. ^ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza TR Trimeticcia di Segezia Anno 2012 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed September 2013.


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