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The Kiko is a breed of meat goat originating from New Zealand. [1] Kiko comes from the Māori word for meat. [ 2 ] : 392 [ 3 ] The Kiko breed was developed in the 1980s by Garrick and Anne Batten, who cross-bred local feral goats with imported dairy goat bucks of the Anglo-Nubian , Saanen , and Toggenburg breeds.
This is a list of goat breeds usually considered to have developed in Canada and the United States. The goat is not indigenous to North America, so none of them is exclusively American. The goat is not indigenous to North America, so none of them is exclusively American.
This page presents a list of goat breeds used for the production of meat. Many of those breeds listed below are dual-purpose, that is they are also used for the production of milk or fiber . These have been cross-categorized under Category:Dairy goat breeds and Category:Fiber-producing goat breeds .
The young goat lived at a backyard farm. Minnesota has reported the U.S.’s first ruminant – a group of animals including cattle, sheep and goats – to test positive for avian influenza.
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The precise ancestral heritage of the Lamancha goat is still unknown, though references to short-eared goats date back as far as records from ancient Persia. [3] [5] Goats from La Mancha, Spain, which are now known as Spanish Murciana, were first exhibited at the World's Fair in Paris [3] in 1904, labeled simply, "La Mancha, Cordoba, Spain."
A Texas teen is accused of killing a classmate’s show goat by force-feeding it pesticide. Aubrey Vanlandingham, 17, is charged with cruelty to livestock animals, a felony, according to court ...
Slightly smaller than standard breeds of the goat, fainting goats are generally 43 cm (17 in) to 64 cm (25 in) tall and can weigh anywhere from 27 kg (60 lb) to 79 kg (174 lb). Males, billies, or bucks as they are often referred to, can be as heavy as 90 kg (200 lb). [ 13 ]