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Nigerian Dwarf twins. The Nigerian Dwarf was originally bred for show and as a companion animal. It was later also bred for dairy use. [2] Average milk yield of dairy stock is 340 kg (750 lb) per year; [9]: 284 a yield of 993 kg (2190 lb) in a lactation of 305 days was recorded in 2018. [10]: 3 Lactation usually lasts for about ten months. [2]
Like the Nigerian Dwarf, it derives from the West African Dwarf group of breeds of West Africa. [ 3 ] : 355 [ 4 ] : 35 Between 1930 and 1960, animals of this type were imported to the United States for use either as zoo animals or for research; some were later kept and bred as companion animals and established as a breed in 1975.
West African Dwarf goats are important in the rural village economy of West Africa. Nigerian West African Dwarf goats are trypanotolerant (they resist to infections by Trypanosoma) and haemonchotolerant (they resist infections with the gastrointestinal parasite nematode Haemonchus contortus more effectively than other breeds of domestic goat). [5]
The Nashville Zoo has grown its family of Nigerian dwarf goats by four sweet, furry members. On March 23, a pair of male goats were born to Luisa and on March 27 a second pair of males were born ...
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 ...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) is the state agency responsible for wildlife conservation and management in Pennsylvania in the United States.It was originally founded 129 years ago and currently utilizes more than 700 full-time employees and thousands of part-time and volunteers in its official mission to "manage and protect wildlife and their habitats while promoting hunting and ...
Italy’s former national carrier Alitalia has started procedures for the collective dismissal of its remaining 2,059 employees, its administrators told unions. The move comes as the successor to ...