Until 1960 the breeding in Tuscany was guaranteed by the peasant population who stabily lived in campaign.
The pigs, grazed in numerous branches by the farmer's young sons, were one of the most important food in that time.
The bovines were used to work, to product the milk and, only some brood female, used to product of calves for the slaughter.
Asses and mules were used, above all in the mountainous country, to carry and work: important autoctonal specie is the ass of Amiata, currently to extinction risk.
Particularly was the breeding of horses in Maremma, tradition maintained by the tenacity of the "Butteri".
The ovine breeding, but rare cases, was practiced in the mountainous country, with seasonal transhumance: very important those from Casentino to Maremma.
The following abandnment of the campaign penalized the bovine breeding while it increased the ovine one, thanks to a strongly immigration of shepherds from the Sardinia. Today, the revaluation of the campaign and the search of the greater quality, enable a revival of the bovine breeding of autoctonal species.
Same revival interest the swine breeding, till now restricted to the fast increase and abundant pork production species, of which the consumption never bended thanks to the particular working of salami and cold pork meats.
The pigs, grazed in numerous branches by the farmer's young sons, were one of the most important food in that time.
The bovines were used to work, to product the milk and, only some brood female, used to product of calves for the slaughter.
Asses and mules were used, above all in the mountainous country, to carry and work: important autoctonal specie is the ass of Amiata, currently to extinction risk.
Particularly was the breeding of horses in Maremma, tradition maintained by the tenacity of the "Butteri".
The ovine breeding, but rare cases, was practiced in the mountainous country, with seasonal transhumance: very important those from Casentino to Maremma.
The following abandnment of the campaign penalized the bovine breeding while it increased the ovine one, thanks to a strongly immigration of shepherds from the Sardinia. Today, the revaluation of the campaign and the search of the greater quality, enable a revival of the bovine breeding of autoctonal species.Same revival interest the swine breeding, till now restricted to the fast increase and abundant pork production species, of which the consumption never bended thanks to the particular working of salami and cold pork meats.