Saltasassi
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| Country of origin | Italy |
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| Wool colour | white |
| Face colour | white |
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The Saltasassi is an Italian breed of upland sheep, reared for meat. It originates in the provinces of Verbano Cusio Ossola[4]: 268 and Novara in the northern part of Piemonte, in north-west Italy.[2] It is one of the forty-two autochthonous local sheep breeds of limited distribution for which a herd-book is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep-breeders.[3]
The population in 1983 was estimated at 2500.[4][2] In 2013 the total number for the breed was not recorded; in 2012 it was 37.[5] A study conducted by the region of Piemonte in the year 2000 found the Saltasassi to be virtually extinct.[4]: 269 At the end of 2020 the population numbered six head – five ewes and a ram; in 2025 the conservation status of the breed was listed in DAD-IS as "at risk/critical".[2]
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