Changthangi Goats
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About Changthangi GoatsAbout Changthangi Goats





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.