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Traditionally, animals, mainly the dairy and working cattle, were raised that spent their lives in barns or which were also let out to graze nearly the stabling. Other types of livestock were taken up to the pastureland halfway up the mountain sides, where many communities had built structures sometimes called mountain huts that provided shelter when the weather was bad.

In Hondarribia, ewes, horses, cows and large numbers of ''Betizu'' cattle, over two hundred steer, are raised on the Jaizkibel slopes. Many farmsteads, where they have ''dry ''cows or heifers, o turn them out on the upland instead of raising them at home in order to save on food, work and the space they occupy in the barn. They remain year round in Jaizkibel except in the case of a really hard winter.

Ewes, Pottok horses and ''betizu'' cattle were raised in Lapurdi. Pigs were let loose in the forest to forge on acorns. There were also nanny-goats which were raised only for meat and not for milk, but they were seen negatively for the destruction they caused.

Ewes, nanny-goats and white pigs are also taken up.