Andalucía ha sido un cruce de caminos para múltiples civilizaciones ligadas al Mediterráneo, al Norte de África y a Europa. Por lo tanto esta región ha sido un punto de confluencia de los distintos troncos de animales ...

First a brief review of the primitive origins of the diverse Andalusian domestic livestock breeds is done. The Spanish Pure Breed Horse and Merino Sheep are considered the oldest breeds classically characterized, followed ...

Between 1st and 4th of December, 2003; an event was celebrated in the city of Recife (Pernambuco, Brazil) congregating more than 200 researchers of 16 countries, to present results and discuss the last advances in the ...

We have studied the type of hair and the coat colour of the Andalusian Hound breed with a view to characterise and typify the nine varieties recognised in the racial pattern. We have concluded the existence of highly ...

We are presenting a morphological study of the red varieties (Torbiscal, Retinto Portugués, Retinto Extremeño, Dorado Gaditano) of the Iberian pig breed and Jabugo Spotted, according to the Association of Breeders (AECERIBER) ...

The Palmera sheep breed is officially registered in the Spanish Breeds Catalogue in 1997, as autoctonus breed with a special protection. The census in 1996 was not above 150 animals (82 females, 6 males and 60 animals under ...

The prolificacy of the Segureña sheep breed as a expresión of its potential numerical productivity is under study in the last years because this trait is considered as a selection criteria as the weight and daily gains. ...

The origin of the Cuban Creole Black pig is under a controversy, but the majority of authors locate their procedure in the ancient Spanish Iberian branches. Others hypothesis point out a possible influence of pre-hispanic ...

The sheep census of the Canary Islands is about 43.000 animals, of this the Canarian Sheep Breed is above 90 percent. It presents a great interest for obtaining milk and meat as quality products. Attending exclusively to ...

In the present paper we are describing the planification of a conservation and preservation programme of the Maneto dog breed group in developing under two consecutive phases. Firstly we show the results obtained in the ...