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The Nigora is an American breed of small or medium-sized dual-purpose goat, raised both for its milk and for its fiber. [1] It is the result of cross-breeding Nigerian Dwarf bucks with does of mohair breeds such as the Angora. [2]: 22 [3]: 325
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]
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 ...
Between about 1930 and 1960 a variety of small goats of the West African Dwarf group of breeds of West Africa were imported from zoos in Germany to the United States, to be exhibited in zoos or used as research animals. [3]: 355 [5]: 40 Some came into the hands of private breeders who kept and bred them as companion animals.
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 ...
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 ...
Area code 870 was created in April 1997 to serve the most rural parts of the state (originally specifically not Little Rock metro, Fort Smith or Northwest Arkansas). In January 2002, area code 479 broke from 501, giving Fort Smith and Northwest Arkansas their own area code. The following three area codes serve Arkansas:
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 ...