![]() The 7th provincial Pezzata Mochena Goat Show in
Bedollo, in 2013. | |
Conservation status | FAO (2007): not listed [1] |
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Other names |
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Country of origin | Italy |
Distribution | Autonomous Province of Trento |
Standard | MIPAAF |
Use | dual purpose, meat and milk |
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Wool color | usually pied, sometimes with Swiss markings |
Horn status | almost always horned in both sexes |
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The Pezzata Mòchena, known in Mòcheno as the Pletzet Goes van der Bersntol, is an indigenous breed of domestic goat from the Autonomous Province of Trento, in north-eastern Italy. It originates from the Valle dei Mòcheni, also known as the Valle del Fersina and as the Bersntol, which since the fourteenth century has been home to a Mòcheno-speaking population of Bavarian origin; the breed may for this reason also be called the Valle dei Mòcheni. [3]
The Pezzata Mòchena is raised in the Valle del Fersina, in the upper and lower Valsugana, and on the Altopiano di Piné . [2] The breed was recognised in 2004, and the herdbook established in March 2005. [4] The Pezzata Mòchena 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. [5]
At the end of 2013 the registered population was variously reported as 261 [6] and as 274. [7]
![]() The 7th provincial Pezzata Mochena Goat Show in
Bedollo, in 2013. | |
Conservation status | FAO (2007): not listed [1] |
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Other names |
|
Country of origin | Italy |
Distribution | Autonomous Province of Trento |
Standard | MIPAAF |
Use | dual purpose, meat and milk |
Traits | |
Weight |
|
Height | |
Wool color | usually pied, sometimes with Swiss markings |
Horn status | almost always horned in both sexes |
|
The Pezzata Mòchena, known in Mòcheno as the Pletzet Goes van der Bersntol, is an indigenous breed of domestic goat from the Autonomous Province of Trento, in north-eastern Italy. It originates from the Valle dei Mòcheni, also known as the Valle del Fersina and as the Bersntol, which since the fourteenth century has been home to a Mòcheno-speaking population of Bavarian origin; the breed may for this reason also be called the Valle dei Mòcheni. [3]
The Pezzata Mòchena is raised in the Valle del Fersina, in the upper and lower Valsugana, and on the Altopiano di Piné . [2] The breed was recognised in 2004, and the herdbook established in March 2005. [4] The Pezzata Mòchena 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. [5]
At the end of 2013 the registered population was variously reported as 261 [6] and as 274. [7]