Judgement and qualification: The need for specific technical training for Catalan domestic breeds assessment Authors Pere-Miquel Parés i Casanova DOI: 10.2436/20.1503.01.164 Keywords: domestic animals, contests, animal ethnology, livestock fairs. Abstract In this article, the author reflects on the need for correct morphological evaluations of the Catalan autochthonous breeds, thus differentiating morphological judgement and qualification. The first term, judgement, is based on a comparative ranking of animals of the same breed presented together. The animal which receives the highest scores wins, but this does not mean that it presents the best racial conformation. The second term, qualification, refers to the score given individually to a purebred animal, based on the criteria established in its breed pattern, which states different qualifications for the different body parts. Some thoughts are also presented on the importance of livestock competitions, as well as on the evaluation of equine hybrids (mules and hinnies). Lastly, the need to create a Catalan school of livestock evaluators and judges is highlighted. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2025-12-11 Issue No. 56-57: (2024-2025) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal QUADERNS AGRARIS, authors accept the following terms: Authors assign to ICEA (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to QUADERNS AGRARIS.Authors answer to ICEA for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.ICEA declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal QUADERNS AGRARIS is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
