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| name = Zerasca
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| image_size = 280px
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| country = Italy
| distribution = province of Massa Carrara, in Tuscany
| use = meat
| maleweight =
| femaleweight = 62 kg
| maleheight =
| femaleheight = 75 cm
| woolcolor = white
| facecolor = white, sometimes mottled with brown or grey
| note = meat
}}The Zerasca is a breed of upland sheep from the province of Massa Carrara, in Tuscany in central Italy.[1][ It is raised almost exclusively in the comune of Zeri and the neighbouring comune of Pontremoli.][ In the years after the Second World War, systematic use was made of Massese rams with the aim of improving milk yield; the result was a reduction in resistance to disease and ability to forage on poor terrain, an increase in mammary defects, an increase in colour variability, but little improvement in milk yield.][ The Zerasca 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 2012 the total number for the breed was 951. References1. ^1 Breed data sheet: Zerasca/Italy. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed September 2013.
. p. 306–307.[1]
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