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Goat Breeds
The goat is one of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals. It represents introversion, creativity, shyness and being a perfectionist. Goats were one of the first animals to be domesticated and have been used for their milk, meat, hair, and skins all over the world. There are over 100 distinct breeds of goat and there are more than 924 million live goats in the world.
Breeds of Goats
There are the following breeds of Goats:
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 Alpine
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Alpine goats, sometimes referred to as the
Alpine Dairy, are hardy medium-sized milking goats.
Alpine goats are originally from the French
Alps. They have no set markings and they have erect ears, horns, and have a
dish-face. They have a straight face with a Roman nose. Mature female Alpine
goats weigh around 125 lbs, and are about 30 inches tall at the shoulder.
Alpine goats can range from
white or gray to brown and black. Alpine colors are described by using the
following terms:
·Cou Blanc - (coo blanc) literally "white neck" - white
front quarters and black hindquarters with black or gray markings on the head.
·Cou Clair - (coo clair) Literally "clear neck" - front
quarters are tan, saffro
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Altai Mountain |
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The Altai Mountain goats, or Gornoaltaiiskaya, are wool-producing
goats from the Altai mountains in Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region of the former
Soviet Union.
Their diet consists mainly of grasses and other plant life and
they graze almost constantly during the day.
Unlike some other breeds of wool producing goats, the Altai
mountain goats are very consistent on their wool production amounts from one
goat to the next. There is usually only a ten percent difference in yield at a
maximum.
They are quite uniform in both color and size and mature slowly,
not reaching full adult status for five years or more.
Wool of
Altai Mountain goats has high technical qualities and is a valuable commodity
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American Cashmere |
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Inrnthe 1970s Wild goats from Australia were crossed with Spanish meat goats livingrnin the American southwest and after years of selective breeding, AmericanrnCashmere Goats were developed.
Americanrncashmere goats are still considered rare, but the North America herd is increasingrnin size.
AmericanrnCashmere goats start growing a new coat of cashmere fiber each summer. Therncashmere fiber starts to loosen and shed in early spring. The natural color ofrncashmere fiber is usually light to chocolate brown, cream, white, or gray.
Theyrnare remarkably intelligent, friendly, and easy going. They get along well withrnother animals, children, and each other. They mix well with cattle and horses which prefer different plants.
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Anatolian Black |
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The
Anatolian Black goat is raised in Turkey for its meat, milk, and fiber. They
are usually black but sometimes they are brown, gray, or pied. Anatolian Black goats are
a Syrian type goat with large, drooping ears, and coarse flat long hair.
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Anglo-Nubian |
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Anglo-Nubian
goats were developed in England by crossing British goats with African and
Indian bucks.
Anglo
Nubians are all-purpose goats (meat, milk and hide production). They are not a
heavy milk producer but they have a high average butter fat content (between
four and five percent). The Anglo Nubian breeding season is much longer than
that of the Swiss breeds so it is possible to produce milk year round.
They
are best suited for milk production in hot conditions and are used in
grading-up programs in many tropical countries to increase milk and meat
production of local breeds.
Anglo-Nubian
goats are a relatively large, proud, and graceful dairy goat. They are named
for Nubia, in northeaste
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Angora |
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TheAngora
goat is a breed of domestic goat named for Ankara,Turkey, historically known asAngora. Angora goats produce mohair
fiber.
The Angora goat has been
regarded by some as a direct descendant of the Central Asian Markhor goat. They
were found in central Asia since around the Paleolithic era. In the 1550’s the
first Angora goats were brought to Europe by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and
they were first introduced in the United States in 1849 by Dr. James P. Davis.
Seven adult goats were a gift from SultanAbdülmecid
Iin appreciation for his services and
advice on the raising of cotton. More goats were imported over time, until the
Civil War destroyed most of the large flocks in the south. Eventually, Angora
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Appenzell |
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This goat breed has pure white coat with hair
at mid length. It has a well-built body with powerful and well
positioned legs. It is hornless and has
height that ranges from 70 to 80 cm and its weight from 45 kg to 65 kg.
Appenzell Goat milk
production is comparable to other breeds of goats. During lactation between 700
and 800 kg, fat 2.9%, protein 2,7%, lactation duration 270 days. The number of
registered animals is around 800; the stock is slowly increasing again. This
breed was very heavily affected by the CAE-Virus, so that extensive restoration
had to be done. Today the breed is essentially CAE-free.
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Arapawa |
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The Arapawa Goat is one of the rarest goat
breeds in the world and is critically close to extinction.
The Arapawa Goat is a breed of feral goat
descended from Old English milch goats released on Arapawa Island off the coast
of New Zealand. It is directly descended from a breed of English landrace goat
which no longer exists in its native England. Extremely rare today, a few have
been exported to North America and other regions. These goats were originally
put on Arapawa by the inhabitants of the bay named Te AwaIti Whaling Station in
the early 1800s.
In the 1970s the New Zealand Government’s Forest
Service’s priority on Arapawa Island became the protection of the native fauna
and flora on Arapawa Island’s reserve, an
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Argentata dell Etna |
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Argentata dell Etna Goats are from Etna and Peloritani (Sicily), Italy. They are also raised
in the provinces of Enna and Palermo. They are named for the volcano, Mt. Etna.
It’s unknown how they were developed; however, they have similarities to
Garganica, Ciociara Grigia, and Cilentana Grigia Sheep.
Their coat is grey shading
from light to dark with silver glints. They have rough, average long-haired and
grey skin. Argentata dell’Etna females have upright horns and the males’ horns are very large and
wide apart.
They are suitable for both
milk and meat (kids around 12-14 kg alive). Milk is used for typical local
cheese varieties.
At the end of 2013 the total population is not more than
7000.
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Aspromonte |
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Auckland Island |
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Goats are reported to have been liberated in at least ten
places on the Auckland Island group, New Zealand, in the second half of the
nineteenth century as food for castaways, with at least one liberation in 1865
on the main Auckland Island. In 1934 the islands were defined as Nature
Reserves and today they are administered by the Department of Conservation. By
the 1970s, only one population of about a hundred goats remained, these living
on the north-west side of Port Ross, one of the driest and warmest parts of the
main island.
Following a 1972-1973 field study by ecologists Rudge and
Campbell, they wrote (in 1977), “We conclude that numbers of goats will remain
at much the present level or, like the rabbits on Rose Is
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Australian Cashmere |
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Long before the British settled
Australia, goats were released on the islands off the coast of Australia by
Dutch and Portuguese navigators. These goats come from a great variety of
backgrounds and they acclimatized readily to the Australian environment.
In 1832 William Riley, imported
goats to his property at Raby, New South Wales. Also he delivered a paper to
the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of New South Wales in an effort to
encourage the development of a cashmere/angora fleece industry in Australia. In
addition more goat where imported from India.
Unfortunately agold rush brought the demise of the infant
goat industry. Prior to the gold rush, flocks of grazing animals, goats, and
sheep were cont
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Bagot |
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For several hundred years bagot goats have lived
semi-wild atBlithfield Hall
in Staffordshire, England. Bagot goats were introduced to England at Blithfield
Hall in the 1380s. They were probably brought back to England by returning Crusaders,
and probably trace their ancestry to goats of the Rhone valley. The goats were
said to have been given to John Bagot of Blithfield by King Richard II of England
to commemorate the good hunting the King had enjoyed at Blithfield.
Bagot goats are small and
have a black head and neck but a white body.
The breed is nearly extinct:
in 1998 there were approximately 200 Bagot pedigree nannies in Great Britain.
According to legend when the Bagot goat breed dies out, the Bagot fa
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Barbari |
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Barbari goats are meat goats from Pakastan. They are small goats and theyrnare creamy to golden white - sometimes with spots. Their meat conformation isrnconsidered good and they are known for Triple kidding and early maturity.
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Beetal |
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Beetal goats both meat and milk
goats. They also known as Amritsari goats and are from Pakistan and India.
They usually red, black or pied
with pendulous ears. The males have long twisting horns. They have a large body
and usually they give birth to two or three kids at a time.
Beetal goat skin is considered
to be of high quality because they are large and yield fine leather such as
velour, suede, and chamois for manufacturing clothes, shoes and gloves. Beetal
goats have been widely used for improvement of local goats throughout the
subcontinent.
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Belgian Fawn |
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Belgian Fawn goats are from Belgium and are descended
from Chamois Colored goats of Switzerland. As such, they are related to and similar to the Oberhasli goats bred in the United
States.
They are horned, are black or brown, and have black
skin. Adult males weigh on average 65 kg and females 60 kg with an average
wither height of 81 cm and 71 cm respectively.
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Benadir |
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Benadir
goats are found in the Webi Shibeli region of southern Somalia. They are used
for both meat and milk production. They are often red or black spotted and have
lop ears.
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Bhuj |
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Bhuj
goats are from northeastern Brazil and are used for both milk and meat
production. They are usually black with
white or spotted lop ears and a Roman nose. They originated from the Kutchi goats
of India.
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Bilberry |
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Bilberry
goats are a unique breed of feral goats that
are believed to have lived in one herd on Bilberry Rock in Waterford City in the south of Ireland for
hundreds of years. They are large, with shaggy coats and very large horns.
Bilberry
goats are not like any other breed of goat found in Ireland or Great Britain,
the Bilberry herd is thought to be related to Pashmina, Maltese or Cashmere
goats. Locals believe they came over with the Huguenots from France over 300
years ago and have lived on Bilberry Rock ever since.
Unfortunately they are close to
extinction: there were only 21 in 2005. Luckily a local charitable society of
volunteers, The Bilberry Goat Heritage Trust was set up in 2000 to care for the
animals. T
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Bionda dell'Adamello |
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Bionda dell''Adamello goats are from the northern Italian Region of
Lombardia. They got their name from the color of their hair - Bionda in Italian
means Fair - and from the mountain "Adamello" which is part of the
Italian Alps.
Bionda dell''Adamello goats appear to be of ancient origin. A
painting from about 1760 by the Milanese painter Francesco Londonio shows a
Bionda dell''Adamello goat.
Bionda dell''Adamello goats are used for milking, for cheese
production; usually Fatuli and the Mascarpi cheese. They are noted for
producing around 350 kilos of milk with 3.2% of fats and 2.96% of proteins. In
some management, milk production can reach 500 kilos.
Bionda dell''Adamello goat’s hair is very long
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Black Bengal |
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Black Bengal
goats come from northeastern India and throughout Bangladesh. They are a small meat
and dairy goats. The Black Bengal is a prolific breed and while usually black
it is also found in brown, white, or gray. They have a short coat and ears and
are bearded. They have small horns and short legs. An adult male goat weights
about 25 to 30 kg and female 20 to 25 kg.
They are poor at
milk production, but they produce high-quality meat
and skin.
They are very
popular in Bangladesh because of they don’t
need much food and they have a very high baby production rate: females become
pregnant twice a year and give birth to 2–3 baby goats every time. They also
can adapt to most environments easily and they are
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Boer |
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Boer
Goat were developed in
South Africa as a meat goat. Their name is derived from the Afrikaans word "boer",
meaning farmer.
They were probably bred from the indigenous goats of the Namaqua
Bushmen and the Fookutribes,
and perhaps some Indian and European bloodlines. They were selected formeat production;
due to selective breeding, the Boer goat evolved into has a fast-growing goat
with excellent carcass qualities, making it one of the most popular breeds of
meat goat in the world.
Boer goats have a high resistance to disease and adapt well
to hot, dry semi deserts. In the United States they are mainly found in
west-central Texas. The original US breeding stock came from herds located in
New Zealand. Only
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Booted |
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Booted Goats are Swiss goat
variety of Mountain Goat. Booted Goats are a robust, vivacious, horned goat.
They are bright gray-brown to dark red-brown with black or brown markings
(black or brown boots).
Until at least the
1920s it was purposefully bred, but in the 1980s it became nearly extinct. It
was saved at by the Foundation Pro Specie Rara. The current breeding region has
its concentration in eastern Switzerland, with individual breeding groups in
the central and western parts of the country
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Bormina |
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Bormina goats are a composite of local Italian goats and
Toggenburg Goats from Switzerland. They
are from Bormio (Valtellina, Bormio Province, Northern Italy). They are raised
for Milk production.
They are medium-large, light brown - red brown.
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British Alpine |
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British Alpine goats were
developed in Great Britian in the early 1900s. The first British Alpines
arrived in Australia in 1958 and have since been up graded using Saanen and
Toggenburg does.
British Alpine goats are tall,
rangy and graceful. British Alpines are black with white markings. Their coat
is generally short, fine and glossy. However bucks often have longer hair. They
are best suited to temperate climates and perform poorly in regions with high
humidity.
The does are good
milk producers, with an average fat yield of four percent. They also exhibit a
tendency towards good winter milking and have an extended lactation period.
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Brown Shorthair |
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Brown Shorthair Goats have been
improved since the end of 19th century. They originated with a native breed of
un-uniform color, mostly light-brown to white goats, improved by crossing with
German brown (Erzgebirgziege) bucks.
They were recognized as an
autonomous breed in 1954-55. They are found in the northern and western
mountain regions of the Czech Republic.
They have glossy short hair, a cinnamon
to ferruginous or dark brown coat and face. They have eelstripes that run from
cantle to tailtip. Their belly, shank, and hooves are black. They have upright
ears and they are mostly (75-80%) hornless.
Average females
weight about 120-140 pounds, height in withers 70-75 cm, heart girth 80-102 cm,
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Canary Island |
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Canary Island Goats
are found in Spain. They are kept primarily for milk production and are
found in many colors. The horns are sabre or twisted.
They are usually free
from modern diseases that inflict dairy goats. They are able to live well even
in the mountains and island cliffs. They have tough legs with tiny udders. They
will eat just about anything including bags or clothing.
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Caninde |
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Caninde goats are from northeastern Brazil. They are predominantly black with light stripes on their face,
chest, and lower legs.
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Capestrina |
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Capestrina Goats most likely originated on the Lepini,
Ausoni and Aurunci mountain (Italian provinces of Rome, Frosinone, Latina, -
Latium). Quite rarely Capestrine goat are bred, more often they are bred with
Ciociare, Monticelliane goats and hybrids.
Males are 93-94 cm high at the withers and weight 85kg;
females are 74-79 cm high and weight 46-53 kg. Their coat is black or seal
black, their limbs are often light colored and some of them have a sort of
pattern on their head. Both sexes have horns. They are mainly bred for kid
production, and some times for milk.
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Carpathian |
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Carpathian goats are from southeastern Europe (including Romania and
Poland) and are used for both meat and milk production. They typically have long hair and twisted
horns. InRomania they are found in
many colors, however the Carpathians found in Poland are usually white.
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Caserta |
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Cashmere |
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Acashmere
goat is any breed of goat that produces cashmere wool. Cashmere wool is a goat''s fine, soft, downy, winter
undercoat used for commercial use.
The name
"cashmere" comes from Kashmir, the wild and mountainous area of India
and Pakistan; however, the fiber came from Tibet and was woven in Kashmir. In
the 15th Century India, more than 50,000 people were employed in the processing
of cashmere.
In the 19th
Century, a Scottish manufacturer, Joseph Dawson, developed the first mechanical
method of separating the fine down fibers in the goat''s fleece from the coarser
outer hairs. This breakthrough shifted the cashmere manufacturing to Scotland
and the modern era of fine cashmere knitwear began.
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Chamba |
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Chamba Goats are from the Himalayan region, India. They are a
sturdy and have soft white hair. They are used to transport products up and down the
hilly sides of the region.
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Chamois Colored |
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Chamois Colored Goats are dairy and meat goats from Switzerland. They
are brown with black face-stripes, back stripe, belly, and legs. They are
either horned or polled.
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Changthangi |
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Changthangi goats (also known
as or Pashmina goats) are found around Ladakh in Kashmir,
India. They are raised for meat and cashmere production and used as pack
animals. They are usually white but sometimes that are black, gray, or brown.
They have large twisting horns.
Noori,
the world''s first cloned Pashmina goat, was cloned at the Faculty of Veterinary
Sciences and Animal Husbandary of theSher-e-Kashmir
University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST) in
Shuhama, on March 15, 2012.
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Chappar |
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Chappar
Goats are small black meat goats from Pakistan. Their meat conformation is
considered to be medium to good and they a fairly long hair coat.
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Charnequeira |
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Charnequeira goats are found in Portugal and they
are raised for both meat and milk production. They are usually red but sometimes
they are pied. Some are polled and some have wide twisted lyre horns.
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Chengde Polled |
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Chengde Polled Goats are kept for meat and
cashmere wool production, and are found in northern Hebei in China.
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Chengdu Brown |
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Chengdu
Brown Goats are from the Sichuan Province of China. They are a prolific breed kept
for meat and milk production. They are brown with a dark face and back stripes.
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Chigu |
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Chigu Goats are fromIndia. They are bred for cashmere and meat. They are
white with long twisted horns.
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Ciavenasca |
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Ciavenasca Goats belong to the alpine group of goats and are
from Val Chiavenna (province of Sondrio – Lombardia, Italy) where they are
commonly reared. They are very suitable to mountainous grazing.
They are 75-80 cm high at their withers. They are variously
colored with a short hair coat. They are horned.
They are a dairy breed, but they are reared for meat as well
(kids and animals to the final stage). A typical by-product is “Viulìn de càvra
de Ciavéna” from salted spiced thigh and shoulder, aged for 2-3 months.
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Cilentana Fulva |
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Cilentana Fulva are red goats are from southern Italy. They
are known for its adaptation to the local marginal conditions (hills and arid soils).
They are raised for milk and meat. They are medium-sized. Males are 80 cm high at the withers
and weight 55-60 kg; females are 69 cm high and weight 40-45 kg.
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Ciociara Grigia |
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Ciociara Grigia, or “Two Women Grey”, Goats most likely are
from Mount Ausoni and Aurunci, Italy; where a few are still bred. Their coat is
plain silver grey, light and dark, long-haired with a grey skin. And they are
found with or without horns. They are very good for milk and kid meat.
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Corsica |
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Corsican Goats are from the Frenchisland of Corsica. They are a long haired goat and they are kept primarily
for milk production. They come in all colors.
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Daera Din Panah |
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Dera
Din Panah goats are from the Multan andMuzaffargarhdistricts of thePunjab province ofPakistan. They have a
well-developed body with long black hair, long hanging and twisted ears, and spiral
horns.
They are used primarily formilk production; their Average
daily milk production is 2.5 liters The registered population was reported in
2006 as 142,403.
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Damani |
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Damani Goats are milk goats found in the Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan
districts in Pakistan. They are medium sized
with a mature weight of approximately 35 kg.
They typically have a long black hair coat with a tan head and legs. The
daily average milk production from the does is 1.8 liters.
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Damascus |
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Damascus
Goats, also known asAleppo, Halep, Baladi, Damascene,Shami, or Chami Goats are raised in Syria and Lebanon. It is
generally used as milking goats.
They are of the Nubian type.
They have long hair and are usually red or brown but they can also be pied or
grey. They may be either horned or polled.
ADamascusgoat named
Qahr won the first prize for the "Most Beautiful Goat" title at the
Mazayen al-Maaz competition inRiyadh
on June 13, 2008.
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Danish Landrace |
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The ancestors of today’s Danish
Landrace Goats have been in Denmark since 3400 BC, however, this sturdy breed
has seen a lot of cross breeding which has left the number of true Danish
Landrace Goats rather limited.
At the beginning of the 20th
century, many were crossed with goats from the German Harz region and Saanen. After
world war II many Danish Landrace Goats were used as recipients for embryo
transfer of Angora or Boer goats or for crossbreeding with Boer goats for meat
production.
Today most Danish breeders keep
small non-commercial herds for home consumption of milk, cheese and meat or for
hobby purpose, with the exception of a few commercial milk producers.
The Danish Landrace is a mediu
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Don |
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Dons
are a medium-sized goat from theDon river of
theLower Volga territory in Russia. They are used for the production ofwool,goatskin, and milk.
They were discovered in 1933-34 by
an expedition of the All-Union Institute of Sheep and Goat Husbandry that were studying
goats in the former Lower Volga territory.
They have strong constitution,
good conformation and adequate undercoat wool on the body, neck and belly. Their
horns are large and variable in shape.
Don goats are predominantly black,
but they are sometimes white. Don goats have the highest wool production among
all goat breeds. The average wool yield from females is 500 g from bucks it is
1015g. As is known, in all other cashmere breeds
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Duan |
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Duan Goats are from the Guangxi Provincein China
and are used for meat production. They are black,
white, or pied.
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Dutch Landrace |
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Dutch Landrace Goats are one of
the original breeds found in the Netherlands, and they are related to other
northwest European "Landrace" goat breeds. They are a medium sized, horned breed preferably with long hair. All
colors are allowed except for the typicalToggenburg
coloration.
In 1958 there were only two left. Those two were
bred with very similar goats found in the area. Today the population has
increased and there are over a thousand Dutch
Landrace Goats kept by members of the L.F.N.L., the
Dutch Breeders Association of the Dutch Landrace.
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Dutch Toggenburg |
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Dutch Toggenburg Goats are milking goats thatrnwere developed in theNetherlands by crossing the native Dutch goats and Toggenburg goat.
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Erzgebirg |
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Erzgebirge (also known as Passeirer
Gebirgsziege Or Erzgebirgsziege) Goats
are native to the Saxony Germany. Erzgebirge goats are polled and have a reddish
brown coat with black stripes on the face, back, and legs. Primarily used for
milking, the breed is critically endangered.
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Fasana |
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Fasana,
or Colombina, medium-sized goats are from Piedmont,
Italy. In Austria, France, and Germany are called "Pavone".
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Finnish Landrace |
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Finnish Landrace goats are found primarily in
western Finland are bred primarily for milk production. They are available both
polled and horned. They are usually white but they are sometimes gray or pied.
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Frontalasca |
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Frontalasca Goats are from
Frontale in Val Rezzalo, Italy. They are similar to Swiss Grigionese Goats.
They are reared in the Valtellina, Val Malenco, Val Masino, and Valchiavenna,
valleys.
They have a black coat with
white steaks at the sides of their head, bosom, sub-caudal area, and at the
limbs toes. They have medium length thick shiny hair and long sabre-shaped
horns.
They are a dairy breed, but
they are also reared for meat as well. A typical by-product is “Viulìn de càvra
de Ciavéna” from salted spiced thigh and shoulder, aged for 2-3 months.
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Garganica |
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Garganica, or Fulva
Lucchese, Goats represents the typical goat breed of the Ligurian Tuscan and
Emilian Appennines, particularly in the provinces of Lucca (Tuscany) and
Garfagnana. They were derived from cross-breeding of
local animals with goats imported from western Europe, probably at the same
time as the importation of Merino sheep that led to the formation of the
Gentile di Puglia sheep breed.
Garganica medium-height
goats are very elegant showy coats. Commonly they are brown, grey, or tawny colored.
They have long flowing hair, and are found with or without horns. Their heads are rather small and adults have long, coarse black or dark
chestnut hair. The kid skins are prized for their curly, raven-black hair.
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Girgentana |
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Girgentana Goats are from Agrigento (also known as Girgenti) Sicily. At one point there were more than 30,000 Girgentana Goats in the hillsrnand coastal zone of the province. However, today the registered population isrnunder 500 goats.
Girgentana Goats have unique horns that twistrninto a spiral. They have a long beard and a primarily white coat withrngrey-brown hair around the head and throat. They produce high-quality milk.
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Goingeget |
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Goinget, or Göinge, goats originally from Sweden, are not bred
for how much milk or meat they produce. Their breeding selection is quite
random except for the efforts to not breed animals that are too closely
related. This however is not an easy task since all Göinge goats come from the
same two pregnant goats found in the area around Tyringe, south of Sweden.
"The Society of the Peasantry Goat" or in Swedish: "Föreningen
Allmogegeten" has created a gene bank so they can control the breeding of
the Göinge Goat.
They originated from
a type of goat that was common all over the south of sweden in the 19th
century. This goat is usually horned and is typically gray, brown, white, or
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Golden Guernsey |
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The Golden Guernsey is a rare breed of goat from the
Bailiwick of Guernsey on the Channel Islands. In 1965 the Golden Guernsey was
exported to Great Britain and the English
Golden Guernsey Club, later to become the Golden
Guernsey Goat Society, was formed.
Golden Guernsey goats are
gold colored, of course, ranging from pale blond to deep bronze. They are
smaller and more fine-boned than other British milking goats, and they vary
greatly in coat length. The males are sometimes horned but the vast majority
are not. They are generally very docile and friendly. The males have been said
to be unusually smelly.
The goat is efficient
milking livestock for its relatively small size, producing an average yield of
3.1
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Grigia Molisana |
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Grigia Molisana are found in Italy; specifically the
provinces of Campobasso and Isernia, Molise Region, especially in the town of
Montefalcone nel Sannio. Most likely they are a composite of local breeds,
Maltese, Garganica and Alpina.
They are medium sized. Females are 70-76 cm high at the
withers and weigh 50-65 kg. They Uni colored: white, black, grey, also other colors.
They are bred for milk and meat.
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Grisons Striped |
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The Grisons Striped is a
tough goat breed from Switzerland and they feel right at home in the mountains.
It likes grazing in landscapes that are stony.
The Grisons Striped goat milk production is not
equal to that of other breeds, which lead to ranchers not breeding them. In
1992 only twelve registered bucks remained! Luckily a group of concerned goat
breeders have joined together and have taken the promotion of the breed by the
hand. Above all else, they have devoted attention to milk production and the
avoidance of inbreeding. In 1994 four bucks and two nannies were imported from
Great Britain which have the same color characteristics as the Grisons Striped
Goat, but significantly better milk production. Since then many
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Hailun |
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Hailun Goats are a dairy goat breed found in the
Heilongjiang region of China. They are black, pied, grey brown, or yellow. They
originated from Saanenand Toggenburggoats crossed with
local goats.
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Haimen |
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Haimen Goats are from Zhejiang, China. They are white
meat goats known for their prolific reproduction.
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Hasi |
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Hasi Goats are the larger mountain
version of the Albanian Goats. They are from northeastern Albanian and they are
bred for both milk and meat production. They are red and have lop ears.
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Hejazi |
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Hejazi Goats are meat goats from Arabia. They are usually black and long haired and used primarily for
meat production.
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Hexi Cashmere |
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The Hexi Cashmere is used
primarily in the production of cashmere fiber. Found mainly in China, the
largest producer of cashmere down. Hexi Cashmere goats are usually white but
sometimes they are black, brown, or pied.
The name "cashmere" comes from
Kashmir, the wild and mountainous area of India and Pakistan; however, the
fiber came from Tibet and was woven in Kashmir. We know that in 15th Century
India, more than 50,000 people were employed in the processing of cashmere.
In the 19th Century, a Scottish manufacturer,
Joseph Dawson, developed the first mechanical method of separating the fine
down fibers in the goat''s fleece from the coarser outer hairs. This
breakthrough shifted the cashmere manufacturing to Scotl
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Hongtong |
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Hongtong Goats white milk goats that originated from Saanen goats crossed
with local goats.
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Huaipi |
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Huai Goats are from Henan region
China. They are usually white meat goats and they are found both horned and polled.
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Huaitoutala |
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The Huaitoutala Goat is a
cashmere goat from Qinghai, China.
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Hungarian Improved |
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Hungarian Improved Goats are milk goats. They are descended from
selective breeding of local goats crossed with Swiss dairy breeds, especially
Saanen goats. They are black, white, red, or
cream.
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Icelandic |
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Icelandic Goats, also known as Settlement goats, are an
ancient domestic goat breed believed to be of Norwegian origin and dating back
to the settlement of Iceland over 1100 years ago.
Iceland Goats have been isolated for several centuries, which
mean that they are highly inbred. Under their coarse, long guard hair they have
a coat of high quality cashmere fiber. Icelandic goats are kept mainly as pets
and currently have no economic value.
They were on the verge of extinction during the late 19th
century, but they recovered prior to World War II, but unfortunately it was
short lived and the numbers quickly declined again. Today they are slowly
increasing in numbers. In 2003, there were only 348 Icelandic Goat
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Irish |
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Irish Goats are long-haired goats
from Ireland used for milk, meat, and skins. Although not native to Ireland,
domesticated goats have long been raised in Ireland. In many areas feral
populations have become established as a result of escapes or deliberate
releases from captivity. Iris Goat populations have persisted in remote and
rugged areas which they are ideally adapted - Irish Goats are nimble-footed on
crags and precipitous cliffs. They range widely in colors; however, they are
usually a mixture of grey, black, and brown. Both genders have horns, but the
males have larger horns.
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Istriana |
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Istriana Goats come from Istria
(once belonging to Italy), and have been crossbred with alpine breeds. They are
bred in the province of Gorizia, (in 1983 there were just over 100 heads). They
have plain white coats and are a dairy and meat breed, the kids are slaughtered
at 10-15 kg.
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Jamnapari |
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Jamnapari (or Jamunapari) goats,
ancestors of the American Nubian, originated in Indian and are bred for both
milk and meat. Since 1953 they have been imported to Indonesia (popular as
Etawa goat, and its mixture with a local goat called "PE", Peranakan
Etawa or Etawa mix) where they have been a great success. The name is derived
from the rivers Yamuna, Jamuna (West Bengal) and Jamuna (Bangladesh) of India
and Bangladesh. In India there were an estimated 580,000 of the breed in the
1972, although less than 5000 were thought to be purebred.
Jamnapari Goats vary in color
but they typically are white with patches of tan on their neck and head. Their
heads tend to have a highly convex nose, which gives them a parrot-like
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Jining Grey |
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Jining Grey Goats are from the
Shandong Province of China, where they are used for kid pelt and cashmere fiber
production. They are known for the attractive wavy
patterns of its kid-pelt.
Well-raised
Does raised reached maturity at 3-4 months of age, and may give two kiddings a
year, or three kiddings in two years. They are very prolific, with an average
kidding rate of 294 percent.
Both genders
have horns and carry a forelock. Their color patterns vary between black, white
or black and white. They are a small bodied goat with the males weighing
approximately 33.2 kg (~75 lbs) and the females 25.4 kg (~56 lbs).
Jining Grey Goats also are used for cashmere.
The production from the males will range f
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Jonica |
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Jonica
Goats are a domestic goat from the province of Taranto, in southern Italy. It
is thought that Jonica Goats originated from the crossing of local varieties
with Maltese goats. Jonica Goats are one of the eight autochthonous Italian
goat breeds for which a genealogical herdbook is kept by the Associazione
Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep-breeders. In 2013 there were 232 registered Jonica Goats.
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Kaghani |
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Kaghani
are large goats from the valley of the Hazara district of Pakistan. They are used
for cashmere fiber and meat production. They are white, gray, brown or black. Their
meat conformation is considered to be medium to good. Kaghani goats yield a
good crop of long hair (per head/year 2 kg) with an under coat of cashmere wool
used for expensive pashmina fabrics.
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Kalahari Red |
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Kalahari
Red goats are red meat goats from the Kalahari Desert in South Africa.
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Kalbia |
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Kalbia goats are a meat goat from Australia.
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Kamori |
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Kamori goats are a popular breed of milk goats found in the
districts of Dadu, Larkana and Nawab Shah in the Sind Province, Pakistan. They
are famous because of their long ears and huge body, also for their unique
color. A purebred Kamori goat has dark brown color with coffee or dark faun
color small patches over its entire body.
Purebred Kamori goats are very expensive and rare. However
farmers crossbred pure Kamori Goats with Patairee Goats, another famous breed
found in Sindh province, and the resulting goat breed is mostly recognized as
Kamori by common people because of its same body structure. This hybrid goat
has become more popular among people because of its beautiful colors and lesser
price as compare to pure K
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Kiko |
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Kiko Goats were bred in New
Zealand for meat production. The Maori word “Kiko” means flesh or meat. The breed
was developed by Garrick and Anne Batten of Nelson in the northern South Island.
The Kiko breed was established by crossbreeding selected feral does with
Anglo-Nubian, Toggenburg and Saanen bucks, with further cross-breeding in the
second and third generations. After four generations of selective breeding –
selection being on the grounds of survivability and growth rate in a hill
country environment – a dramatic improvement in live weight and animal
performance was achieved. By 1986 the Kiko breed was established and the herd
was closed to further cross-breeding. Within New Zealand, control of the breed
has remained with t
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Kinder |
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The Kinder Goat breed began in
the late summer of 1985, when Zederkamm Farm''s Nubian buck died, leaving two Nubian
does without a mate. Since they also kept pygmy goats and did not want to take
the does to another farm to be bred, they were bred with their pygmy buck. Left
to his own devices, the buck accomplished the two successful breedings, making
use of log sections and sloping land to reach the correct height. On 30 June
and 4 July 1986, the first three Kinder does were born. It was another year
before the first Kinder buck was born.
It is easily possible for a
Kinder doe weighing about 115 pounds to produce five kids who in 14 months can
weigh 80 pounds each and dress out at 50 pounds thereby producing 250 pounds
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Kri Kri |
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The Kri-kri, also known as the Cretan, Agrimi,
or Cretan Ibex goat, are feral goats that are
found in the Eastern Mediterranean,
specifically only the island of Crete and
three small islands just offshore (Dia,Thodorou, and Agii Pantes).
Kri-kri Goats have a light-brownish
coat with a darker band around their neck. They have two horns that sweep back
from their head. In the wild they are shy and rest during the day. They can
leap impressive distances and climb seemingly sheer cliffs.
Kri-kri Goats are not thought
to be indigenous to Crete. Most likely they were imported during the time of
the Minoan civilization. However, they are now found nowhere else.
As molecular analyses
demonstrate, Kri-kri G
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L Aquila |
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L’Aquila Goats are from the province
of L''Aquila, Italy. They are a composite of local breeds, Toggenburg from
Switzerland, Alpine, Maltese and Girgentana. They are medium sized (males are 75-80
cm high at the withers and weight 70kg, females are 65-70 cm high and weigh 55-60
kg) . They are uni-colored: black, brown, white, also other colors. They
produce 230-300 kg milk per lactation.
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LaMancha |
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LaMancha Goat originated in US
state of Oregon by Mrs. Eula Frey. She combined short-eared goats of a type
found not only in LaMancha, but throughout spain. LaMancha Goats have excellent
dairy temperament and are an all-around sturdy animal that can withstand a
great deal of hardship and still produce. Through official testing this breed
has established itself in milk production with high butterfat.
LaMancha faces are straight with
distinctive short ears. They have either a gogher ear or an elf ear.
The "gopher ear" is
described as having an approximate maximum length of one inch but preferably
non-existent and with very little or no cartilage. The end of the ear must be turned
up or down. This is the only ty
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Lariana |
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Lariana Goats, or the Goat of
Livo, comes from the western side of Como Lake, from
Livo valley, Italy. They belong to the European alpine Group of Goats. They are
found in Italy across in western Lario and nearby areas.
Their coat is
variously colored: plain–black, brown, red or yellow – or pied. Horns: present
or absent, ibex-like or ‘markar’, that is, backwards and wide apart. Although
their milk production is quite good, they are mainly reared for kids.
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Loashan |
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Loashan
Goats are dairy goats from the Shandong Province of China. They were developed by German preachers in 1904 by the
selective breeding of local goats crossed with Saanen Goats. They have been improved by upgrading and selection
during the past 70 years, and they are now similar to purebred Saanen in both
body and conformation and milk production.
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Massif Central |
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Massif Central Goats
are from the massif central area of France. Massif Central is an
elevated region in south-central France, consisting ofmountainsandplateaux.
Massif Central Goats
are large, stocky goats
with generally long hair on their backs, thighs and under belly. Traditionally
the animals without horns were preferred.
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Messinese |
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Messinese Goats are a dairy goat from the Monti Nebrodi and the Monti Peloritani area in the province of
Messina, in the Mediterranean island of Sicily, in southern Italy. They are
also found in the provinces of Catania, Enna, and Palermo. The breed was
officially recognized and a herd-book established in 2001. It was previously
known either as the Capra dei Nebrodi
or in general as the Siciliana Comune.
The Messinese is
one of the forty-three autochthonous Italian goat breeds of limited
distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della
Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep- and goat-breeders. At
the end of 2013 the registered population was variously reported as 9814 and as
10,40
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Mini Oberhasli |
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Mini
Oberhasli, also called anOberian, and formally called Miniature
Oberhasli, Goats are dairy goats that were created
by breeding a Nigerian Dwarf with an Oberhasli Goat. Mini-Oberhasli Goats produce from 4 to 10 pounds of milk per day.
They are registered by the
privately owned Miniature Dairy Goat
Association (MDGA)and The Miniature Goat Registry, which is a nonprofit corporation. The minimum height
for does is 21 inches and 23 inches for bucks. Maximum height standards for
purebreds are 28 inches for does and 30 inches for bucks. They are most often
red bay with black markings, although they also may be pure black and only
rarely red (not accepted for registration). The Mini-Oberhasli should be a
mid-sized version
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Mini-LaMancha |
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Mini LaMancha goats are the Miniature version of LaMancha
Goats: the only breed developed in America. Mini-LaManchas are well known for
their docile, even temperament and a steady production of fairly high
butterfat. Does are up to 27 inches tall and bucks up to 29 inches tall.
Their face is straight with distinguishing ears; they are
either ''Gopher'' which lack cartilage but do have a ring of skin around the
auditory canal or the ''Elf'' which has some cartilage and should be no longer
than an inch long. In does, both ear types are equally accepted but bucks must
have ''Gopher''; ears to be registered.
Bucks with elf ears are registered as
"Experimental".
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Mini-Nubian |
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Mini-Nubian Goats are a mid-sized goat and are a cross
between Nigerian and Nubian goats.They
are known for being a graceful, elegant goat that stand between 23-31 inches
tall and come in any color or pattern of short, fine, glossy hair. They are
know for their ease of milking; producing a high quantity and quality of milk
whose butterfat yield is similar to that of the standard Nubian.
Breeding programs put emphasis on a structurally correct
animal with well-attached udder that milks with ease. As this breed was
originally designed for small farms and homesteaders who milk by hand and
needed a smaller animal for handling and feeding purposes.
The Mini-Nubians have a unique nose that is never dished,
but straight to
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Miniature Silky Fainting |
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Miniature Silky Fainting Goats
are a unique breed of goat. They are smaller and somewhat easier to care for and maintain than larger meat
goat breeds, which makes the fainting goat desirable for smaller farms.
Fainting goats have many other names, including Myotonic Goats, Tennessee
(Meat) Goats, Nervous Goats, Stiff-leg Goats, Wooden-leg Goats, and Tennessee
Fainting Goats.
Although Miniature
Silky Fainting Goats are listed as a meat breed, the primary goal is to have a
beautiful, silky-haired goat to show. Meat is not a goal of this breed. While
good conformation is expected ~ this breed is predominately about the silky
coat. They are generally
friendly, intelligent, easy to keep, and amusing.
The
"Fainting
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Montecristo |
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Montecristo Goats, or the Goat of Montecristo, are spread across
the isle of Montecristo (Tuscany, Italy). They are not local but they are derived
from Roman goats of medieval times, then crossbred with domestic goats. They
have now grown wild and no longer applied for production.
They have typical wild coat shading from light brown to
varied reddish, bearing a pattern on the head and a dark dorsal line. They are
short-haired and have well developed horns in both sexes.
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Monticellana |
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Monticellana
Goats come from a goat present in Latium at the beginning of the XXth
century, they are also called ‘Bianca Romana’. In the area of Monte San Biagio
(Province of Latina – Latium) there are about thirty breeders owning one
thousands heads.
They have white coats with white-rosy skin;
both sexes bear horns. They are a rustic breed, reared either for milk (used to
make cheese) or for meat (kids).
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Mountain |
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The Mountain Goat (Oreamnos Aamericanus),
also known as the Rocky Mountain Goat,
is a large wild goat found only in North America. They are a sure-footed climber commonly seen on cliffs and ice in
sub-alpine to alpine regions.
Both male and female mountain goats have beards, short tails, and long black
horns which contain yearly growth rings. They are protected from the elements
by their woolly white double coats. The fine, dense wool of their undercoats is
covered by an outer layer of longer, hollow hairs. Mountain goats molt in
spring by rubbing against rocks and trees. Their coats help them to withstand
winter temperatures as low as -50 F (-46 C) and winds of up to
100 mph (
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Moxoto |
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Moxotó Goats are found in northeastern Brazil. They
are white or cream with black face-stripes, back-stripe, and belly.
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Murcia-Granada |
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Murcia-Granada Goats originated
in southeast Spain (Murcia, Almería, Granada, and Alicante). They are raised
for high-performance and for its excellent milk production.
Murcia-Granada Goats are well
adapted to the hot and dry conditions of the semiarid areas of southeastern
Spain. They are the most productive domestic animal in that climate because of
their ability to maintain a high milk production under less than ideal
conditions. The Murcia-Granada flocks graze adverse terrain and feed on the
by-products of the agro alimentary industry with a very good transformation
index. This breed produces near 500 kg of milk in 280 days of lactation, with a
composition of fat (5.3%) and protein (3.4%) better than other breeds in
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Murciana |
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Murciana Goats, also called
Murcian, Murcien, Murciene and Royal Murciana Goats are a used for both milk
and meat production. They originally are from the Murcia province - along the
Mediterranean coast of southeastern Spain.
While they have shorter ears
than many goat breed, Murciana Goats have an ear that is shaped like those of
the Swiss breeds, such as Alpines, Oberhaslis, and Saanens. Murciana Goats are
excellent milk producers. Their milk is especially rich in butterfat.
By the early 16th century,
Murciana goats were well established in Spain, as were several other Spanish
breeds, including the Malaguena goat, the La Blanca Celtibora goat, and the La
Castellana Extremena goat, due to breeding policies s
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Murgese di Foggia |
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Murgese di
Foggia Goats were from the province of
Foggia, Italy. Most likely they are extinct.
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Myotonic (Wooden Leg) |
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Myotonic Goats, also known as
Wooden Leg, Stiff Leg, or Tennessee Fainting Goats are one of the few goats
that are indigenous to the U.S. There are two strains of this animal. Most of
those found in Tennessee and the eastern U.S. are smaller. Most Texas herds
tend to be somewhat larger, probably due to selective breeding for the meat
market. In fact, some ranchers have renamed them Tennessee Meat Goats.
Myotonic Goats are often sold
as pets because they are unique. Myotonic means when they are frightened or
excited they "lock up" and often fall over (faint) and lie very stiff
for a few seconds. It is an over-simplification, but the chemicals which are
rushed to humans'' muscles and joints to prepare them for "fight or
fligh
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Nachi |
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Nachi Goats are a meat goat that
is found in the Jhang, Multan, and Muzaffargarh districts in the Punjab
Province of India. They are medium sized and are black or brown. Their meat
conformation is considered medium. They have short and rough hair, small
twisted horns, and a dancing gait.
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Napoletana |
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Napoletana Goats are from Naples, Italy. Their numbers have decreased in the
latest decades. Their coat is black with limited light red areas or dark red
with lighter areas; short hair. They have small sickle-shaped horns. They used
to be reared mainly for fresh milk. Kids slaughter at 9-12 kg.
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Nicastrese |
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Nicastrese Goats come from Nicastro area, which today is Lamezia
Terme, Italy, at the foot of Mount Reventino. They are bred in the province of
Catanzaro and because of its good economic features they have spread to nearby
provinces.
They have a black coat with white
bosom and limbs, as well as part of the head and possibly the sides; long
smooth hair in females, tougher in males. Their horns are usually present in
both sexes. They are reared for both milk and meat.
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Nigerian Dwarf |
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Nigerian Dwarf Goats are miniature
dairy goats from West African. They were originally brought to the United
States on ships as food for large cats such as lions, the survivors originally
lived in zoos. Nigerian Dwarf goats are popular as pets and family milkers due
to their easy maintenance and small stature. However, because of their high
butterfat, they are also used by some dairies to make cheese.
Nigerian Dwarf Goats are
registered by the American Dairy Goat Association, the American Goat Society,
and the Nigerian Dwarf Goat Association.
There are two different height
standards for the Nigerian Dwarf goat. The height standard maintained by the
American Goat Society and the American Dairy Goat Association
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Nigora |
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Nigora Goats are medium-sized (19in
to 29in tall) milk and fiber goats. Nigora Goats are generally calm, amiable, and
laid back. Due to their good nature and size Nigora Goats are sold as pets, and
well as milk and fiber animals.
Nigora Goats originated in the
United States in the early 1990s. Early Nigoras contained a mixture of Nigerian
Dwarf, white and colored Angora goat bloodlines, as well as some small grade
fiber goat breeding; today''s Nigoras may also contain the bloodlines of
registered Swiss type Mini Dairy breeds.
The conformation, character and
style of the modern Nigora should be that of a healthy, proportionate animal:
It should exhibit a rectangular build, refinement, bone structure, substance
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Norwegian |
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Norwegian Goats are, yes you guessed it, from
Norway! They are a long-haired goat and they are used for both milk and meat the
production. They are gray, blue, white, or pied.
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Nubian |
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The Nubian, or Anglo Nubian, is an all-purpose goat,
useful for meat, milk and hide production. Nubian goats are known for the high
butterfat content of their milk, although on average, the breed produces less
milk than other dairy breeds.
Nubian goats are named for Nubia, in
northeastern Africa. The originally goats imported from Africa, Arabia, and
India were long-legged, hardy goats that had some characteristics desired by
goat breeders in England. English breeders crossed these imported bucks with
the common short-haired does of England prior to 1895 to develop the Nubian
goat.
Due to their Middle-Eastern heritage, Nubians
can live in very hot climates and have a longer breeding season than other
dairy goats. Sin
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Oberhasli |
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Oberhasli Goats are a medium-sized dairy goat. Oberhasli
Goatsare Chamoisee- colored, ranging from light to a deep red
bay with black facial stripes, muzzle and forehead. Oberhaslis can also be
black in color.
Oberhasli are a modern
American breed of dairy goat. They derive from a subtype of goat from the
Oberhasli district of the Bernese Oberland in central Switzerland. All purebred
members of the breed descend from five chamois-colored Goats imported to the
United States in 1936. A breeder''s association, the Oberhasli Breeders of
America, was formed in 1977, and in 1980 the Oberhasli was accepted as a breed
by the American Dairy Goat Association (ADGA). Until then, goats of this type
had been known as Swiss Alpine, a
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Orobica |
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Orobica, or Valgerola, Goats
are a medium-sized goat from the Val Gerola in the province of Sondrio, in the
Bergamo Alps of northern Italy.
The origins of Orobica Goats is
unknown; they were first documented at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Orobica is one of the eight autochthonous Italian goat breeds for which a
genealogical herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia,
the Italian national association of sheep-breeders.
At the end of 2013 the
registered population was only 274.
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Peacock |
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The
Peacock (German: Pfauenziege) Goat breed from the cantons of Graubünden and
Upper Tessin in Switzerland is used for the production of milk. There is little
known about the origin of the peacock goat. The discovery of the peacock goat
was in 1887. The name given to it after the discovery was the striped goat, but
due to a reporter''s spelling error, the goat was known as the peacock goat. The
peacock goat also goes by the names of the gray-black goat, the
gray-black-white mountain goat, and razza naz. The peacock goat is
predominantly white with black boots, while the rear half is mostly black. The
goat has a thick mid-length coat of hair. It has large horns, and dark facial
spots/stripes from the base of the horn, over the eye
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Pedula della Valtellina |
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Pedula della
Valtellina are medium-large Goats from
Valtellina, Valmalenco, and Valchiavenna Italy. They have feature Alpine Goats.
They are a dairy goat with a gentle temperament.
Their coat is made up of
short thick beige hair shading to grey and peculiar black streaks on the head
and on the toes, in the sub-caudal area and on the breastbone. There are two
types: the classical type with black chamois shades and a second type (Mogna)
with white or whitish shades. They have sabre-shaped horns in both sexes.
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Pezzata Rossa |
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Pezzata Rossa Goats most likely are related to Neapolitan Goats.
They are a dairy goat and they are found around a vast area in many provinces
of Campania, Italy. Their coat is usually
red pied with irregular edges. Sometimes they have a white face mask. Both
sexes bear horns.
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Philippine |
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There are two varieties of
Philippine goats raised for meat production.
There is a coarse-haired type
that is cream, tan, or light brown and they are usually polled.
The other is a fine-haired horned
variety which is black or brown and may have a white belt. These goats are
thought to have originated from the Katjang breed.
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Poitou |
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Poitou goats are a rare dairy
breed from western France. They are usually polled and have long hair coats. They
are black-brown with a pale underbelly and legs.
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Pomellata |
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Pomellata Goats are from the Campania
region of Italy.
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Potenza |
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Potenza
Goats, or Capra di Potenza “Power Goats”, are from the
Potenza, Province of Italy. They are derived from local breeds (Cilentana,
Garganica and probably Girgentana Goats). They are adapted to the local
environment (hills, where arid soils are predominant).
They uni colored: grey,
black, brown, also other colors. They have large
horns. They produce 300-350 kg milk per lactation.
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Pygmy |
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Pygmy Goats were originally
called the Cameroon Dwarf Goat since they originated in the former French
Cameroon area. They are mostly found in West African countries. Similar forms
of Pygmy goats also are found across northern Africa, southern western African
countries, and in east Africa.
The Cameroon goats were
exported from Africa to zoos in Sweden and Germany where they were on display
as exotic animals. The first Pygmys probably arrived in the United States in
1959 from Sweden.
Pygmy goats have a full
coat of straight, medium-long hair which varies in density with seasons and
climates. Most often they have a grizzled (agouti) pattern produced by
intermingling of light and dark hairs, of any color.
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Pygora |
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Pygora goats are a breed of
fiber goat that originated from crossing Pygmy Goats and Angora Goats.
The Pygora was a purposeful
cross, bred by Katharine Jorgensen of Oregon City, Oregon. In 1987, the Pygora
Breeders Association was formed in the United States, and has since then been
registering and promoting Pygoras. Today, the registered Pygora goat may not be
more than 75% AAGBA-registered Angora goat or 75% NPGA-registered Pygmy goat.
Pygora are mainly for producing
fiber, but some people also show them as a hobby, in fairs, fiber shows, and in
4H. Some pygora breeders and 4-H clubs show goats at the Oregon Flock and Fiber
Festival (OFFF).
Pygora Goats produce three
distinct kinds of fleece. Py
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Pyrenean |
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Pyrenean Goats are from the Pyrenees of France and Spain and the Cantabrian
Mountains of Spain. They are bred for
both milk and meat production. They are usually dark brown or black with a
paler belly and feet. The Pyrenean can be either polled or horned and usually
has long hair.
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Qinshan |
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Qinshan Goats are black goats from Jining,
Shandon, China. They are raised for their pelts.
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Red Boar |
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Red Boar Goats are a meat goat from
South Africa. They also are used as pets.
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Red mediterranean |
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Red Mediterranean, or Rosa Mediterranea, Goats originally
came from central-eastern Mediterranean, particularly Syria. They have a
reddish-brown coat. They are mainly bred for milk for making cheese.
Rossa Mediterranea, or Derivata di Siria, Goats are from the Mediterranean
island of Sicily, in southern Italy. They were derived from Siria or Mambrina,
Goats. They are raised mainly in Sicily, but also in Basilicata and Calabria in
southern mainland Italy.
Rossa Mediterranea Goats
are a milk breed. Their
milk production is approximately 570 kg with an average of 4.11% fat and 3.53%
protein, and is used predominantly forcheese-making.
They have a light red coat, possibly white p
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Repartida |
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Repartida Goats are from northeastern Brazil selectively
bred from the Chué goat. Like its progenitor, it is a meat-type breed. The
breed has black forequarters and brown or pale hind, and vice versa.
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Roccaverano |
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Roccaverano Goats are considered an autochthonous breed of Alta Langa Val Bormida, Italy, and
the most diffuse goat breed in that area; most likely it belongs to the Alpine
group of Goats.
They have long-haired coat
with a great variety of colors (beige, black, white or brown) either plain or
pied. Usually they do not have horns. Mainly they are used to produce milk used
to make Robiola of Roccaverano cheese.
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Rove |
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Rove Goats were first
domesticated in Le Rove, France near Marseille. They were once considered
endangered, but as of 2003, there are more than 5000 registered Roves on French
farms. The goat was originally bred for meat, but because the current French
market for goat meat is poor, farmers have begun to use the Rove for dairying,
instead.
Rove Goats are primarily
characterized by its long twisted horns. They can reach nearly 4 ft in length.
The goats have a smooth coat often in red or black, but also in ash gray, red
speckled with white, red mixed with gray, black with tan markings under the
eyes and nose or red and black.
It is a medium sized goat.
Females range from 100 to 120 lbs and males between 155 to 2
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Russian White |
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Russian White
Goats are, unsurprisingly, white goats from
Russia. They are dairy goats derived from the selective breeding ofSaanenand Toggenburg
goatsimported from Switzerland,
crossed with various native goat breeds of the former USSR.
Hairy goats,
of the Saanen and Toggenburg breeds, have been imported periodically from
Switzerland and other European countries; these breed undoubtedly contributed
much to the formation of various groups and varieties of goats specialized in
milk production. In addition, people in both the European and Asian parts of
the USSR have been raising milk goats for centuries. Separate groups of goats
have formed under the influence of various feeding and management methods, and
on the basis
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Rustica di Calabria |
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Rustica di
Calabria Goats are an Italian breed reared in the province of Cosenza
(Calabria). They have heterogeneous features; probably they have been mixed
with Maltese and Garganica Goats. After rearing in the mountains, they are
brought to lower altitudes during the winter.
Their coat is
variously colored, white, brown or black; with or without horns. They are used
for both milk and meat production (kids slaughter at 6-7 kg).
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Saanen |
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Saanen Goats
are dairy goats that originated in Switzerland, in the Saanen Valley. By the late 19th century they had
spread across Europe, and in the early 20th century were brought to the US. Now
they are among the most popular dairy goat breeds, due to their high
productivity and ease of management.
Saanen does
are heavy milk producers and usually yield 3-4 percent milk fat. They are medium to large in size (weighing
approximately 145 lbs/65kg) with rugged bone and plenty of vigor.
Saanens are
white or light cream colored; however white is preferred and spots on their skin
is not discriminated against and small spots of color on their hair is
allowable, but not desirable. Saanen hair should be sh
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Sable Saanen |
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Sable Saanen Goats are descended
from Saanen goats brought to America by Europeans. In 2005, the Sable was
recognized as a separate breed. Before they were recognized as a separate
breed, they were often culled. They are color variations of Saanens due to a
recessive gene; they are sometimes referred "the Saanens in party
clothes".
Sables can come in a variety of colors,
including black, brown, and grey. They may have white colorings, but are not
permitted to be solid white, as that would be no different from a normal
Saanen. Sables are recognized by the American Dairy Goat Assiocation (ADGA).
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Sahelian |
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Sahelian Goats are from West
Africa, especially in north and northwest Mali. They are used for the
production of meat, goatskin, and very rarely milk.
Sahelian Goats belong to the
Savanna group of goats with many types and subtypes raised in the Saharan and
sub-Saharan region.
They have a thin appearance,
narrow body, shallow chest, and sloping short croup. Both genders are horned,
most (70%) with wattles, pendent or semi-pendulous ears. Average females weight
about 55-75 pounds, height in withers 65-75 cm, heart girth 62-78 cm, males
about 85-125 pounds, 65-85cm in withers and 70-85 cm. in heart girth.
They have stiff short hair, with variety of
colors from pure white, cream, to red, black or gray
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Salerno |
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Salerno
Goats are from Salerno province of Italy.
They are uni-colored black or brown. They yield 250 kg per lactation.
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San Clemente Island |
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San Clemente Island Goats are
derived from feral goats isolated on San Clemente Island, one of the Channel
Islands off the coast of California. They are thought to be descended from goats brought
to the island by Spanish missionaries and settlers; breeds such as the La
Blanca Celtiboras, the La Castellana Extremenas, and later the more common
dairy and meat goats of Spain, the Malaguenas and Murcianas.
The U.S. Navy became
responsible for the island in 1934. Hunting and trapping were allowed, but in
1972, when a survey concluded that there were 11,000 goats on the island, a
systematic removal program was begun. By 1980 an estimated 4,000 goats still
remained on the island.
The Navy then proposed a
shooting program t
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Sarda |
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Sarda Goats are from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, off the west coast of central Italy. They are raised
throughout the island, particularly in the provinces of Cagliari and Nuoro. They are
an
ancient breed that has been influenced by the Maltese
goat.
Sarda Goats are of medium
build, long-necked, and deep-chested. The does have well-developed udders. The
breed is particularly hardy and well-suited to being raised in a wild or
semi-wild state in tough conditions.
Sarda Goats are one of the
eight autochthonous Italian goat breeds for which a genealogical herdbook is
kept by the Associazione
Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian
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Savanna |
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Savanna Goats are a high-quality white meat were developed
from native South African goats.
For years various south African farmers bred what was then
known as white Boer goats for a number of years in South Africa. One of the
advantages of these white goats was the fact that the white color is dominant
over most other colors. The other reason is that there is a big demand for
white goats for slaughter purposes for various reasons.
Savanna Goats were developed from
these white Boer goats by the Cillier family of Douglas, South Africa. In 1957,
Mrs. Cillier''s Griqua servants presented her with the gift of a white buck
goat. She purchased five indigenous does with white in their color pattern to
breed to him
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Screziata |
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Screziata Goats are from the Campania region of Italy.
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Selvatica di Galite |
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Some exemplary Selvatica di Galite Goats are raised near the ConSDABI (Consortium for
Experimentation, Divulgation and Application of Innovative Biotechniques),
Circello, Benevento.
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Selvatica di Joura |
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Some exemplary Selvatica di Joura Goats are
raised near the ConSDABI (Consortium for Experimentation, Divulgation and
Application of Innovative Biotechniques), Circello, Benevento.
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Selvatica di Samotracia |
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Some exemplary Selvatica di
Samotracia Goats are raised near the ConSDABI (Consortium for Experimentation,
Divulgation and Application of Innovative Biotechniques), Circello, Benevento.
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Sempione |
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Sempione Goats are autochthonous Goats from Alta Ossola, Italy. They are at serious risk of extinction
(fewer than 100 heads). Suitable to mountainous rearing.
Their coat is white,
sometimes brown, with long hair all over the body. They have a beard and well
developed horns that turn backwards in males, shorter in females. These goats
are reared for kids of about 10-12 kg.
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Somali |
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Somali Goats are found in Somalia and northeast Kenya. They are used
primarily for meat production. They have short ears and hair, usually white but
sometimes with spots or patches. Both males and females have horns, although
females are often polled. The goats are drought tolerant and, when milked, can
each yield one to three kilograms of milk daily, even when access to water is
limited.
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Spanish |
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Spanish Goats, also called
brush goats or scrub goats, came originally from Spain via Mexico to the USA. They
are now a meat and brush-clearing type found widely in the United States. In
the Southeast and elsewhere, they are often referred to as "wood"
(Florida), "brush" or "briar" (North Carolina, South
Carolina), "hill" (Virginia), and "scrub" (midwest
Pennsylvania) goats. Until recently, these goats were kept mainly for clearing
brush and other undesirable plant species from pasture lands.
Around the 16th century,
Spanish explorers brought landrace goats from their native lands to the
Caribbean Islands and areas that would later become the United States and
Mexico. Some landrace Spanish goats exist in their native te
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SRD |
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SRD Goats are from northeastern Brazil and are a meat
breed. The name stands for Sem Raca Definida, meaning without defined breed.
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Stiefelgeiss |
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Stiefelgeiss Goats is a meat
goat from the highlands of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Their population is
currently less than one thousand.
Both male and female
Stiefelgeiss goats have horns. Their coats range from a light greyish brown to
a dark reddish color. The animals are not excessively shaggy, but on the
animals'' hind end, long beard hairs, called "Mänteli," grow much
longer and often are of a different color from the rest of the coat. Some
members of the breed display long, beard-like hairs on the chin.
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Surati |
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Surati goats are is a popular milk goat breed from India. They
are white and medium sized. Their ears are of medium size and both females and
males have tiny horns.
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Swedish Landrace |
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Swedish Landracegoats are
from northern Sweden. They are
used for milk production, which is used to make cheese.
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Tauernsheck |
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Tauernsheck goats are from Austria and are for the milk production. They
are a very rare breed of goats derived from the Austrian Landrace and Pinzgauer
goat breeds.
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Tavolara |
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Capra di
Tavolara are brown goats from the island
of Tavolara, Italy. They are related the wild goats.
Some exemplary of this race
are raised near the ConSDABI (Consortium for Experimentation, Divulgation and
Application of Innovative Biotechniques), Circello, Benevento.
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Tennessee Fainting |
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Tennessee Fainting Goats are also known as Myotonic, Tennessee
Meat, Texas Wooden Leg, Stiff, Nervous, and Scare goats.
The breed''s history can be traced
back to the 1880s. An itinerant farm laborer named John Tinsley came to central
Tennessee, reputedly from Nova Scotia. Tinsley had with him four unusual, stiff
goats. Goats of this type gradually became known across the region. They were
less apt to climb fences and escape from pastures than other goats, and their
muscular conformation and high reproductive rate were also valued. Farmers
began to appreciate them, and the numbers of "stiff,"
"nervous," or "fainting" goats increased. During the 1950s,
some Tennessee Fainting goats were taken to the hill country of
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Teramo |
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Teramo are
dairy goats are from the hills of the Teramo province, Italy. They are
uni-colored: predominantly grey but other colors are possible.
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Thuringian |
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Thuringian Goats are a variety ofrndairy German goat found in Thüringen, eastern Germany. They were developed fromrnToggenburg, Harzerziege, Rhönziege, and Thüringer Landziege goats around 1885.rnIn the early 1900s Swiss Toggenburg, Harzerziege, and Rhönziege were introducedrnand Swiss Toggenburg was used again in 1988.
They are chocolate-brown withrnwhite markings on head and legs, a light face mask and white flash on the rump.rnThey may be either polled or horned. Adult males weigh on average 55 kg andrnfemales 48 kg with an average wither height of 78 cm and 74 cm respectively. Theyrnare known for their adaptability to mountainous regions and their ability tornwalk long distances. The breed is nearly extinct.
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Toggenburg |
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Toggenburg Goats are a
Swiss dairy goat from Toggenburg Valley of Switzerland. They are considered to be
the oldest known dairy goat breed. They are medium size, sturdy, vigorous, and
alert in appearance.
Toggenburg goat hair is
short or medium in length, soft, fine, and lying flat. Its color is solid
varying from light fawn to dark chocolate with no preference for any shade. They
are also found with white ears with dark spot in middle; two white stripes down
the face from above each eye to the muzzle; hind legs white from hocks to
hooves; forelegs white from knees downward with a dark lien (band) below knee
acceptable; a white triangle on either side of the tail; white spot may be
present at root of wattles
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Uzbek Black |
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Uzbek Goats
are from Uzbekistan and are used for the
production of mohair. They were developed by the
mating of predominantly white first and second generation crossbred females
with purebred white Angora males resulted in the appearance of 1-2% of black
kids.
After 4-5 years, there were
already several hundred black wool goats; they were gathered into one herd and
females were mated only to black males. Such mating produced in the first year
64% and in the second 74% of black kids; others were white, tan, grey, etc.
Later, due to positive assortative mating, it was possible to obtain 94% of
black kids.
The black goats are similar to
Don goats in such aspects as fleece structure, physical properties of wool
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Valais Blackneck |
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Valais Blackneck Goats are a meat and dairy breed found
in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Germany. They have a distinctive coloring,
black from the nose to behind the shoulder and white from there to the tail.
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Valdostana |
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Valdostana
Goats are similar to the Alpine Goats in some respects, but they are different
in the size, the square-built shape and even more in the powerful horns that
are present in the females as well. They may come from hybrids between Goats
and Ibex. They are perfectly adapted to the mountain environment.
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Valle dei Mocheni |
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Valle dei
Mocheni Goats are from the area of
Bersntol (valle dei Mocheni), in the Trento Province, northern Italy.
They come in various colors;
often have irregular markings and Swiss markings. They are bred for milk and
meat production.
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Valle del Chiese |
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Valle del Chiese Goats are from the Chiese Valley, Italy.
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Valle di Fiemme |
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Valle di
Fiemme Goats are from the Fiemme Valley,
Italy.
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Vallesana |
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Vallesana
Goats are Italian goats that are also known as Col Noir de Valais, Valaisan a col noir, Walliser Schwarzhals,
Schwarzweisse Walliser Sattelziege, Vallesana del collo nero, Vallese, Chevre
des Glaciers, and Valais Blackthroat.
Vallesana
Goats native to the border between South
Novarese (Piedmont) and the Swiss canton of Valais, where they are raised. In
Italy they grow in mountainous areas of the province of Verbania and Vercelli
(Piedmont).
They have
long, wavy hair and arched, medium length horns. The Valais Blackneck gets its
name from its striking coloration. While the goat''s body is white from the
shoulders back, the head and neck and occasionally the front legs are solid
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Verata |
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Verata Goats are a medium-small
meat and dairy breed found in Vera, Caceres, Spain. They have twisted horns and
they are chestnut, black, or grey colored. They are very hard and fairly easy
to handle and they can adapt easily to different management systems.
Verata Goats are best adapted
to mountain pastures because they have strong, long legs, and they can also
survive on poor and scarce feed.
They are valued for their milk,
mainly for cheese production. Currently, there is approximately 17000 existing
Verata Goats inhabiting in Spain. Generally speaking, these goats are found in
herds of 100 to 150 goats.
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Waipu |
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At Waipu, the northern part of
the North Island, New Zealand, there is a small flock of feral goats, probably
the remnants of Angoras farmed in the area since the late nineteenth century.
It is believed that there are now very few left in the bush area to which they
were originally confined, the main population currently being held by a member
of the Rare Breeds Conservation Society.
These may be all the Waipu
goats now remaining. It is also possible that this small population is among
the purest original Angora stock left anywhere in the world, as most of the
Angoras of today have been crossbred to some degree to obtain commercial
animals with hybrid vigour.
In 2002 it was thought that
there were only sevent
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West African Dwarf |
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West
African Dwarf Goats are from coastal West and Central Africa. They are the
progenitor of the African Pygmy and Nigerian Dwarf breeds in the United States,
and the Dutch Dwarf and Pygmy goat breeds in Great Britain.
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White Shorthaired |
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White Shorthaired goats are dairy
goats from the Czech Republic. They are the result of selective breeding of
native Czech landrace goats crossed with Swiss Saanen goats in the early 1900s.
they were recognized as a breed in 1954-55 and is now found throughout the
Czech Republic.
White Shorthaired goats are similar
to the Saanen in appearance; they are white and shorthaired. Some strains
maintain the characteristic Saanen''s black spots on the skin of the nose,
eyelids, and udder. They have upright ears and most are hornless (75-80%), with
the pollness fixed through systematic selection.
Their appearance is typical for
milk goats, strong but fine boned, deep and long in body, long legged. Average
females weig
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Xinjiang |
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Xinjiang goats are used for milk, cashmere and meat
production. They are found in the mountains of Xinjiang in China. They are
white, black, or brown.
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Xuhai |
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Xuhai
goats are a variety of Huanghuai Goat found in Jiangsu, China. They are bred primarily
for meat production.
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Yemen Mountain |
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Yemen Mountain goats are long haired goats that are usually
black and found in the mountains of northern Yemen.
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Zalawadi |
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Zalawadi Goats are found in the Surendranagar and Rajkot regions of Gujarat,India.
They are kept for milk, meat, and fiber production. The Zalawadi is of the
Gujarati type and has erect corkscrew shaped horns. Zalawadi goats compromise 27.8% of the goat
population in Surendranagar. The goats are also known by the local name Tara
Bakari.
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Zhiwulin Black |
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Zhiwulin Black Goats are from the northern Shaanxi region of China and are
bred for cashmere and meat production.
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Zhongwei |
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Zhongwei goats are only from the arid desert steppes of the
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Gansu Province of China. They are bred
primarily for the production of kid pelts, and secondarily for cashmere fiber.
They live chiefly, if not solely, on salty or sandy plants
or shrubs.
Both genders are horned with the male''s horns stretching
upward and twisted. The males average 39 kg (85 pounds) and females 24.5 kg (55
pounds). The Zhongwei reach sexual maturity at five to six months and are
generally mated at 18 months of age. The kidding percentage is 104-106 percent.
The kids are often slaughtered at 35 days of age for their
pelts, which have white, lustrous staples, and lovely curls. Zhongwei goats
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