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| Country of origin | Italy |
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| Wool color | off-white |
| Face color | white with reddish markings, black tip to nose, black "spectacles" |
| Notes | |
| triple-purpose: meat, milk and wool | |
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The Rosset is a breed of domestic sheep from the Valle d'Aosta in north-west Italy. It is morphologically similar to the Savoiarda breed from Piemonte and to the Thônes et Marthod breed from Savoie; it may have been influenced also by the Blanc des Alpes and the Biellese. It 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.
In 2013 the total number recorded for the breed was 919.
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