It is a heterogeneous breed with variable characteristics, showing the influence of introductions of Alpina Comune, Girgentana, Maltese and Toggenburg stock.
Management is extensive: the animals are kept on mountain pasture, and brought under cover for protection from the snow only in the winter months.
[2] The Di L'Aquila is one of the forty-three autochthonous Italian goat breeds of limited distribution for which a herd-book is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep- and goat-breeders.
[2] The herd-book was activated in 2002,[6] but no stock has been recorded in it for many years;[2][7] in 2007 the population was reported as 590.
[8] The Di L'Aquila yields about 250–300 kg of milk per lactation,[6] which in pluriparous nannies lasts on average 210 days.