Artisan sheep cheeses (Madrid)
We are a small family business dedicated to livestock and artisanal manufacture of pure sheep cheeses.
In order to obtain a product of the highest quality, all our cheeses are made exclusively with milk from our own sheep.
We are located in the town of Ciempozuelos (Madrid), in the Southeast Regional Park.
For more than 20 years, noe have specialized in the production of milk sheep, working on the genetic improvement of the Assaf breed, in order to produce the best possible milk for the production of pure artisan sheep cheese.
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We have a herd of 1,000 mothers and from birth, all animals are subjected to strict health and genealogical control, with a completely natural diet.
The quality and quality of the milk of our sheep, with very low bacteriology and the highest sanitary qualification of our herd, in accordance with EU regulations, allows us to produce high quality artisan raw milk cheese.
The Spanish Assaf breed is a breed cataloged in Spain since 2005, and is considered a variant of the Assaf breed originating in Israel.
The Assaf breed is a synthetic breed originating in Israel created in 1955. It comes from the cross between sheep of the Awassi breed and males of the Milschschaf breed in the proportion 5/8 and 3/8 respectively.
To achieve this 5/8 Awassi and 3/8 Milchschaf, three consecutive crosses are carried out:
firstly females A and males M, the result of F1 is backcrossed with males A and we obtain F2, finally sheep F1 and males F2 are crossed to obtain the final product, the Assaf breed.
Its creation was based on the improvement of the meat production of the Awassi breed, which was previously improved by its dairy production.
Then it is about improving the Awassi sheep through the crossing with males of the Milchschaf breed, in order for said breed to improve it in terms of prolificacy, precocity and conformation.
The result of this cross will give rise to a synthetic breed with double meat and dairy aptitude.
