| BREED NAME | Most 5 important threats to the breed |
| Basco Béarnaise | Sanitary problems and constraints
Decrease of the public funding for the genetic improvement of local breeds
Competition with more productive exogenous breed (Lacaune)
Variation of the milk price related with the evolution of the sheep cheese trade
Farmers succession |
| Bizet | 1-Ageing farmers. 2-Increasing price of raw material. 3-Increasing work load, necessary to have more and more sheep to maintain same income. 4-Both local and National subsidies are decreasing. 5-selling price of lamb is too low |
| Causses du Lot | Having decent income for sheep breeders.
Decreased number of sheep breeders.
Decrease number of ewes.
The local sheep industry getting weaker with the loss of local companies and activities.
Breeders are not always capable of managing flock of very big size which are necessary however to have decent income. |
| Corse | Ageing population of farmers.
Non farming uses of land (tourism).
No local politic will to develop the sheep breeding industry.
Milking is very time consuming and more generally raising milk breed is very time consuming => not attractive.
Risks of new epizooties (blue tongue in 2000 and 2001 => 15000 dead ewes). |
| Grivette | Global economy of the industry.
Production inadequate with the demands from the industry.
Serious disease like Blue Tongue.
Cross compliance.
Big predators such as wolf. |
| Limousine | 1.Competition with beef farming (higher SFP)
2. Decreasing sheep number
3.Farmers succession
4.Lack of involvement of the local industry to look for new markets
5 No awareness from the local and national financers of the problems the breeds are coping with |
| Manech Tête Noire | 1-Sanitary problems and constraints. 2-Decrease in public funding for the genetic improvement of local breeds. 3-Competition with more productive exogenous breed (Lacaune). 4-Variation of milk price related to the evolution of the sheep cheese trade. 5-Farmer succession |
| Manech Tête Rousse | 1-Sanitary problems and constraints. 2-decrease of public funding for the genetic improvement of local breeds. 3-Competition with more productive exogenous breed (Lacaune). 4-variation of milk price related to the evolution of the sheep cheese trade. 5-Farner succession |
| Mourerous | Drought.
Cross compliance.
Decrese of the price of lamb meat.
Decrease in subsidies.
Increase of the price of animal feeding (crop). |
| Rava | If big predators such as wolves were to settle in its territory, the breeding practices might change hence the farmers might switch to a less hardy breed.
It is highly sensitive to any disease with a high level of morbidity and/or mortality.
On a different level, the local economical context is unfavourable because of a bad connection between production and demands from the industry.
Competition with other breeds.
Stopping of the natural environmental subsidies. |