Jonica

The Jonica is an Italian list of [goat breeds|breed] of domestic goat from the province of Taranto, in Puglia in southern Italy. Its origins are uncertain; it is thought to derive from crossing of local varieties with the Maltese breed. It is one of the eight autochthonous Italian goat breeds for which a genealogical herd-book is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep-breeders.
In 1998 the total number of the goats was estimated at head. At the end of 2013 the registered population was 232.

Use

It is reared principally for milk. The annual milk yield for pluriparous nannies is some litres in a lactation of some days; most of it used to make canestrati or cacioricotta.