What is "valdostana"

The Valdostana is an indigenous breed of domestic goat from the autonomous region of Valle d'Aosta in north-western Italy, from which it takes its name. It was in the past distributed in the Alpi Graie and Alpi Pennine. It is now raised in Valle d'Aosta, particularly in the Val d'Ayas and in the Valle di Gressoney; and in the Val Chiusella, the Valle di Locana and the Val di Susa in the upper Canavese, in the province of Turin, in Piemonte.

The Valdostana is one of the forty-three autochthonous Italian goat breeds of limited distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep- and goat-breeders. At the end of 2013 the registered population was variously reported as 959 and as 856.