Castillonaise

|----- |----- | colspan=2 align=" center" | |----- |----- ! bgcolor=" pink" colspan=" 2" | Name binominal Ovis aries
Linnaeus, 1758 |----- |----- | Origin | Castillon-in-Couserans, France |----- | Diffusion | Local |----- | Size | Small |----- | Dress | White, mottled of red |----- | Use | Meat |----- |}

The Castillonaise is a race ovine E Frenchwoman.

Origin

It belongs to the Pyrenean races with curly wool which one finds in the central Pyrenees. It is in 1907 qu ' appears the name of castillonaise beside the Tarasconnaise. It comes from Castillon-in-Couserans, place of breeding of this race.
Au 19th century, its meat was famous. But the ameliorative crossings involved a augementation of the size of his/her cousin tarasconnaise. She took the seeking top near the purchasers of the legs of good size.
Notre castillonnaise was then victim of its size and anarchistic crossings. From 50000 in 1929, manpower fell at 2000 in 2004. 1200 ewe and 40 rams are registered with the register.
Le genealogical register goes back to 1982. Safety actions were undertaken:

storage of the seed of 12 rams.
Selection of the young rams for setting in center of selection of best.
Creation of families and rotation of the couplings to manage consanguinity as well as possible.

Morphology

It is an ovine race of reduced size: 50-65 cm for 45-55 kg for the ewe and 60-70 cm for 60-70 kg for the ram. The male carries horns in stretched spirals and the ewe is mound.
La skin is gray, carrying a white wool. The head and the legs are mottled of red coppers. It is called also red head .

Aptitudes

It is a beef breed. It produces light sucking lambs in autumn: they are fattened the winter. The pastures are too poor to raise the lambs in mountain pasture, and it is necessary to sell them before they eat too much a rare hay.
Ils came in two months to 18-22 kg to be fattened in Spain. The wool is coarse but in the open air allows a good protection the mountain pasture. It is a mountain breed, walker and resistant.

Bonds

Castillonnaise on the site of safeguarding of the biological inheritance the Midday-Pyrenees.
Card of Castillonnaise.

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