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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 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 .
These goats are medium size for goats, around 30 to 50 kg for females and 50–60 kg for males. They are solid colored, usually black or mahogany colored. The breed association, ACRIMUR ( Asociación Española de Criadores de la Cabra Murciano-Granadina , or Spanish Association of Breeders of the Murcia-Granada Goat) states that they refuse to ...
A Fainting Silky Goat does need their coat to be clean and free from burrs. Their fur comes in many colors, like white, black, shades of brown or any combination of the three. They're truly ...
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.
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.
A goat chained up in a little yard with nothing to do and not much freedom of movement is bound to be unhappy. Happy goats are animals that have far more enriched enclosures, full of places to ...
To estimate their maternal fitness, the health and reproductive traits of 80 myotonic goats were compared to those of Spanish goats, Kiko goats, and Boer goats. The study measured fecal egg count (FEC) and packed cell volume (PCV). Myotonic goats tended to have a lower body mass and a lower FEC, [clarification needed] but a greater PCV than ...