Vissana

Vissana
Conservation status	possibly extinct
Country of origin	Italy
Distribution	Marche, Tuscany, Umbria
Use	triple-purpose: meat, milk, wool
Traits
Weight	Male: 50–55 kg; Female: 40–45 kg;
Height	Male: 70 cm; Female: 60 cm;
Wool color	white
Face color	white, sometimes marked with brown or grey
Notes
	triple-purpose, meat, milk and wool
	Sheep; Ovis aries;

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]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Breed data sheet: Vissana/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2013.
^ ^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. p. 304–305.
^ Le razze ovine e caprine in Italia (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Ufficio centrale libri genealogici e registri anagrafici razze ovine e caprine. p. 82. Accessed September 2013.
^ Consistenze Provinciali della Razza R7 VISSANA Anno 2012 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed September 2013.

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[dad-1] Breed data sheet: Vissana/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2013.

[bigi-2] Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. ISBN 9788850652594. p. 304–305.

[aspa-3] Le razze ovine e caprine in Italia (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Ufficio centrale libri genealogici e registri anagrafici razze ovine e caprine. p. 82. Accessed September 2013.

[aspa2-4] Consistenze Provinciali della Razza R7 VISSANA Anno 2012 (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed September 2013.

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