Native breed

Reindeer belongs to the native breed

Aboriginal breed (from Latin aborigines - indigenous inhabitants) of domestic animals is a historically established system of practical use of a single domesticated animal species in certain economic and landscape-climatic conditions, by fixing adaptation to these conditions in heredity. Indigenous breeds are also called natural breeds , as well as " primitive ", in contrast to breeds " factory " bred in pedigree methods of directional selection . Indigenous breeds often carry rare and endangered genes that are absent in factory breeds ^[1] .

Indigenous breeds include:

• Kabardian and Akhal-Teke horses;
• gray Ukrainian cattle ;
• Romanovskaya and fat tail sheep;
• Chinese lop-eared pig;
• shower chickens ;
• all breeds of reindeer ^[2] ;
• Caucasian and Central Asian Shepherd Dogs (see also ancient breeds of dogs );
• Siberian cat ;
• Armenian wolfhound - gamper ;
• van cat ;
• Samoyed dog ;
• Kazakh Tazy and many others.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature reports that over the past 20 years, from 15 to 30% of indigenous breeds have disappeared in the Russian Federation , and more than 20% of the total number of breeds are in critical condition.