Di Teramo
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| Conservation status | FAO (2007): endangered[1] |
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| Country of origin | Italy |
| Distribution | province of Teramo |
| Standard | MIPAAF |
| Use | milk[2] |
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| Coat | variable, grey, black or brown |
| Horn status | horned in both sexes |
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The Di Teramo is an indigenous breed of domestic goat from the province of Teramo, in Abruzzo in southern Italy,[4] and is raised only in that area. Numbers are very low; the breed was listed as endangered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2007.[1] It is further threatened by cross-breeding with the Garganica breed.[2]
The Di Teramo 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][6] Numbers were estimated at 500 in 1983;[2] at the end of 2013 the registered population was 58.[7]
