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The British primitive goat is a landrace of domestic goat native to Great Britain and Ireland, and is the original goat of the region. [1] It is considered a rare breed , [ 1 ] existing as several, isolated feral herds, [ 2 ] as some captive populations in zoological parks and nature reserves , [ 1 ] [ 3 ] and breeding stock on some private ...
The Angora or Ankara [a] is a Turkish breed of domesticated goat.It produces the lustrous fibre known as mohair.It is widespread in many countries of the world. Many breeds derive from it, among them the Indian Mohair, the Soviet Mohair, the Angora-Don of the Russian Federation and the Pygora in the United States.
A pair of Bagot goats being used for conservation grazing. Bagot goats have no commercial purpose being too small by comparison to the Boer Goat to be viable as a meat breed; producing high quality but low volumes of milk (consistent with generally producing a single kid) by comparison to the Swiss dairy breeds, and producing too little cashmere to compete with the Angora.
American Angora Goat Breeders' Association; American Corn Growers Association; American Dairy Association; American Egg Board; American Farm Bureau Federation; American Feed Industry Association; American Goat Society; American Poultry Association; American Royal; American Seed Trade Association; American Society of Agricultural and Biological ...
Angora wool, from an Angora rabbit; Angora rabbit, one of at least 11 breeds of rabbit; Angora goat, a breed of goat; Peruvian guinea pig, formerly known as the Angora; Angora ferret, a long-haired breed of ferret; Turkish Angora, a breed of cat originally known as just Angora; Oriental Longhair, a breed of cat formerly known as the British Angora
Thomas William Palmer Vice-President, British Goat Society. Septimus Partington, DCM, Internal Head of Works, Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd, Lancashire. Doris Winifred Pearson, MBE, Assistant Secretary, British Academy. George Edward Pegram, Chief Welfare Officer, Essex County Council.
Goat breeds (especially dairy goats) are some of the oldest defined animal breeds for which breed standards and production records have been kept. Selective breeding of goats generally focuses on improving production of fiber, meat, dairy products or goatskin. Breeds are generally classified based on their primary use, though there are several ...
The American Dairy Goat Association or ADGA is a United States not-for-profit corporation dedicated to dairy goats.Its purpose is to promote the dairy goat industry, by providing and circulating sound information about goats and goat's milk; maintaining and publishing herd books and production records of milk goats; and issuing certificates of registration and recordation; improving and ...