{{Short description|Breed of sheep}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} {{use list-defined references|date=September 2013}} {{Use British English|date=September 2013}} {{Infobox sheep breed | name = Garessina | image = | image_alt = | image_size = 280px | image_caption = | status = {{nowrap|FAO (2007): not listed<ref name=barb/>}} | altname = {{unbulleted list|Muma|Razza di Garessio}} | country = Italy | distribution = province of Cuneo | standard = [http://www.assonapa.it/norme_ecc/OVINI-RA_Standard_WEB/Standard-Garessina.htm MIPAAF] | type = | use = triple-purpose, milk, meat and wool | maleweight = 50–55 kg<ref name=aspa3/> | femaleweight = 45–50 kg<ref name=aspa3/> | maleheight = 60–65 cm<ref name=aspa3/> | femaleheight = 55–60 cm<ref name=aspa3/> | skincolor = pinkish | woolcolor = straw-white | facecolor = white | horns = hornless in both sexes | note = }}
The '''Garessina''' or '''Muma''' is a breed of small sheep from the Garessina, the area surrounding Garessio in the province of Cuneo, in Piemonte in north-west Italy.<ref name=dad/> It is raised principally in the valleys of the Tanaro, its affluent the Negrone, and the Casotto; it is not raised commercially, but kept as a family sheep.<ref name=bigi/><ref name=aspa/> It has been influenced by Spanish Merino and French Alpine breeds. The wool is of fine quality.<ref name=bigi/> The Garessina 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.<ref name=aspa/>
Under the national Piano Sviluppo Regionale or regional development plan for 2000–2006, a subsidy was available for those who kept Garessina sheep; in 2004 it was claimed for 64 head.<ref name=rare2/> In 2013 the total number recorded for the breed was 110.<ref name=aspa2/>
==References== <references>
<ref name=aspa>[http://www.assonapa.it/Pubblicazioni/Razze-ovine-caprine-Italia/Razze_Ovine_Caprine_Italia.pdf 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. 57. Accessed September 2013.</ref>
<ref name=aspa2>[http://www.assonapa.it/Consistenze/Cons_razza.asp?Anno=2013&Cod_razza=G1 Consistenze Provinciali della Razza G1 Garessina Anno 2013] (in Italian). Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia: Banca dati. Accessed September 2013.</ref>
<ref name=aspa3>[http://www.assonapa.it/norme_ecc/OVINI-RA_Standard_WEB/Standard-Garessina.htm Norme tecniche della popolazione ovina “Garessina”: standard della razza] (in Italian). Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali. Accessed May 2014.</ref>
<ref name=barb>Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). [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 List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources], annex to: [https://web.archive.org/web/20170110125634/http://www.fao.org/3/a-a1250e.pdf ''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.</ref>
<ref name=bigi>Daniele Bigi, Alessio Zanon (2008). ''Atlante delle razze autoctone: Bovini, equini, ovicaprini, suini allevati in Italia'' (in Italian). Milan: Edagricole. {{ISBN|9788850652594}}. pp. 222–23.</ref>
<ref name=dad>[http://dad.fao.org/cgi-bin/EfabisWeb.cgi?sid=0b1613ebf16355cf65f6a05b9a65fe25,reportsreport8a_175000007 Breed data sheet: Garessina/Italy]. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2013.</ref>
<ref name=rare2>J. Errante, L.A. Brambilla, M. Corti, E. Pastore, R. Leonarduzzi (2006). [http://www.associazionerare.it/images/razze/altri_documenti/le%20razze%20ovine%20arco%20alpino%202006.pdf Le razze ovine autoctone a rischio del Valle d'Aosta, Lombardia, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia]{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (in Italian). Associazione RARE. Accessed May 2014.</ref>
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