Tsigai

The indigenous Tsigai sheep Romanian sheep (lamb) breed Tsigai, associated with Merino and British Sheep, is one of the maximum economically critical local sheep institution from south-jap Europe (Romania, a few Balkan international locations and Hungary). It appears to be at the start the sheep of lengthy distance transhumance shepherds and became positioned in critical and south-jap Romania (Carpathians Bend, hills of Transylvania and S-E plain).

The Tsigai sheep breed shaped withinside the south-east of the Caspic Sea with the aid of using the domestication of the Arkar wild breed. In the present, critical elements from the Tsigai breed may be observed withinside the Central European and East European international locations like Poland, Czech Republic, Croatia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Republic of Moldova and the south of Ukraine.

In Romania, the spreading vicinity of the Tsigai breed became average represented with the aid of using the south of Moldova and Dobrogea. With the developing call for of wool, after 1950, grew the call for of semi-great wool. And in reaction to that, the breeders made crossbreeds among Tsigai and Tsurcana breeds, ensuing a brand new so known as race.