# Capestrina

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Capestrina
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Capestrina.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capestrina
> Source revision: 1328882526
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Italian breed of goat

Capestrina Conservation status FAO (2007): not listed[1] Other names Capra Nera Capra Nera Capestrina Country of origin Italy Distribution southern Lazio Standard MIPAAF Use meat, also milk[2]: 328 Traits Weight Male: 85 kg[3] Female: 46–53 kg[3] Height Male: 93–94 cm[3] Female: 74–79 cm[3] Hair colour black; limbs often pale Face colour black, often with white markings Horn status horned in both sexes[2]: 328 Beard bearded[2]: 328 Tassels not always present[2]: 328 Goat Capra aegagrus hircus

The **Capestrina** is an Italian [breed](/source/List_of_goat_breeds) of [domestic goat](/source/Goat) from the southern part of [Lazio](/source/Lazio), in southern central Italy. It is one of three breeds of goat in the area, the others being the [Bianca Monticellana](/source/Bianca_Monticellana) and the [Ciociara Grigia](/source/Ciociara_Grigia),[4]: 396 but is usually found on higher and less accessible terrain than those breeds.[2]: 328

## History

The Capestrina originates in the [provinces](/source/Provinces_of_Italy) of [Frosinone](/source/Province_of_Frosinone), [Latina](/source/Province_of_Latina) and [Rome](/source/Province_of_Rome), on the spines of the [Monti Aurunci](/source/Monti_Aurunci), the [Monti Ausoni](/source/Monti_Ausoni) and the [Monti Lepini](/source/Monti_Lepini). It is also raised in the [Monti delle Mainarde](/source/Monti_delle_Mainarde) and in the [Val Comino](/source/Val_Comino), and on the [Monti Prenestini](/source/Monti_Prenestini).[3][5] Its geographical range is similar to that of the [Bianca Monticellana](/source/Bianca_Monticellana) and the [Ciociara Grigia](/source/Ciociara_Grigia); it is however usually found on higher and less accessible terrain than those breeds.[2]: 328

It 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](/source/Associazione_Nazionale_della_Pastorizia), the Italian national association of sheep- and goat-breeders.[6] At the end of 2013 the registered population was variously reported as 850[7] and as 991.[8]

## Characteristics

The Capestrina is of medium size: weights for nannies are commonly in the range 46–53 kg, with a height at the [withers](/source/Withers) of some 74–79 cm, while billies normally weigh from 80 to 85 kg and stand 93–94 cm.[3][2]: 329 The coat is either black or near-black (*nero focato*, 'seal black');[4]: 396 some have white [Swiss markings](/source/Swiss_markings) on the face, and these often have white on the beard, the edges of the ears, the lower legs, the belly and the perianal area.[2]: 328[3] The hair of the coat varies in length from about 5 cm to more than 15 cm.[2]: 329 The goats are always bearded, billies particularly heavily so; the horns are large and spreading, and considerably flattened at the base.[3]

## Use

The average [milk](/source/Goat's_milk) yield of the Capestrina, over and above that taken by the kids, is 70 litres in 100 days for [primiparous](/source/Primiparous), 120 litres in 150 days for [secondiparous](/source/Secondiparous), and 150 litres in 150 days for [pluriparous](/source/Pluriparous), nannies.[3]

Kids are slaughtered at about 40–50 days, at a weight of 10–12 kg; or, for [Ferragosto](/source/Ferragosto), as *caprettone* ('large kid'), at a live weight of about 20–25 kg.[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-barb_1-0)** Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). [List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources](https://web.archive.org/web/20200623201209/http://www.fao.org/3/a1250e/annexes/List%20of%20breeds%20documented%20in%20the%20Global%20Databank%20for%20Animal%20Genetic%20Resources/List_breeds.pdf), annex to: [*The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture*](https://web.archive.org/web/20170110125634/http://www.fao.org/3/a-a1250e.pdf). Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9789251057629](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789251057629). Archived 23 June 2020.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-bigi_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-bigi_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-bigi_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-bigi_2-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-bigi_2-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-bigi_2-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-bigi_2-6) [***h***](#cite_ref-bigi_2-7) [***i***](#cite_ref-bigi_2-8) Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). *Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia* (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9788850652594](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788850652594). p. 328–29.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-aspa3_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-aspa3_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-aspa3_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-aspa3_3-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-aspa3_3-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-aspa3_3-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-aspa3_3-6) [***h***](#cite_ref-aspa3_3-7) [***i***](#cite_ref-aspa3_3-8) [***j***](#cite_ref-aspa3_3-9) [Norme tecniche della popolazione caprina "Capestrina": standard della razza](https://web.archive.org/web/20150923190925/http://www.assonapa.it/norme_ecc/CAPRINI-RA_Standard_WEB/Capestrina.htm) (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia. Archived 23 September 2015.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-cabi_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-cabi_4-1) Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). [*Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding*](https://books.google.it/books?id=2UEJDAAAQBAJ&hl=en) (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781780647944](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781780647944).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-arsial_5-0)** [Registro Volontario Regionale delle risorse genetiche autoctone di interesse agrario a rischio di erosione (Legge Regionale 1 marzo 2000 n. 15): Capra Nera Capestrina](http://www.arsial.regione.lazio.it/portalearsial/RegistroVolontarioRegionale/AN/Schede/76.htm) (in Italian). Agenzia Regionale per lo Sviluppo e l'Innovazione dell'Agricoltura del Lazio. Accessed June 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-dm_6-0)** [Strutture Zootecniche (Dec. 2009/712/CE - Allegato 2 - Capitolo 2)](https://web.archive.org/web/20140504172524/http://www.politicheagricole.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeAttachment.php/L/IT/D/1%252Ff%252F9%252FD.8551668d49c199df1401/P/BLOB%3AID%3D2023) (in Italian). Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali. Section **I** (e). Archived 4 May 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-aspa2_7-0)** [Consistenze Provinciali della Razza Q6 Capestrina Anno 2013](http://www.assonapa.it/Consistenze/Cons_razza.asp?Anno=2013&Cod_razza=Q6) (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed June 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-dad_8-0)** [Breed data sheet: Capestrina/Italy](http://dad.fao.org/cgi-bin/EfabisWeb.cgi?sid=0b1613ebf16355cf65f6a05b9a65fe25,reportsreport8a_175000012). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed June 2014.

v t e Goat breeds of Italy These are the principal goat breeds considered in Italy to be wholly or partly of Italian origin; inclusion here does not necessarily imply that a breed is predominantly or exclusively Italian. Alpina Comune Argentata dell'Etna Aspromontana Bianca Monticellana Bionda dell'Adamello Bormina Camosciata delle Alpi Capestrina Capra di Livo Capra di Potenza Caserta Ciavenesca Cilentana Fulva Cilentana Grigia Cilentana Nera Ciociara Grigia Derivata di Siria Di L'Aquila Di Teramo Fasana or Colombina Fiurina Foggiana Frisa Valtellinese or Frontalasca Garfagnina Garganica Girgentana Grigia Lucana Grigia Molisana Istriana Jonica Lariana Maltese Messinese Montecristo Napoletana Nera Rustica Nicastrese Orobica Passeirer Gebirgsziege or Passiria Pedula Pezzata Mòchena Pezzata Rossa Pomellata Roccaverano Rossa Mediterranea Rustica di Calabria Salerno Sarda Sarda Primitiva Sciara Screziata Selvatica di Galite Selvatica di Joura Selvatica Samotracia Sempione Tavolara Valdostana or Chamoisée valdôtaine Valfortorina Valgerola Valle dei Mocheni Valle del Chiese Valle di Fiemme Vallesana Valnerina Verzaschese

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Capestrina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capestrina) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capestrina?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.