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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]
As with the Pygora breed, the fiber is classified into three types, A, B and C, depending on the length and type of the fibers. [5]: 358 Type A is Angora-type mohair, long and lustrous; type B is "cashgora", which combines mohair with cashmere-type undercoat and is of medium length; type C is like cashmere and is shorter.
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.
The Nashville Zoo has welcomed four baby nigerian dwarf goats, the first pair were born on March 23 and the second pair were born on March 27. The baby goats can be seen at the Zoo's Historic Farm.
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Different breeds of goats are adapted to different livestock systems - from small herds of 3-5 heads on meager grazing to large intensive livestock farms, from year-round grazing to fully stable housing, with many intermediate variations between them. Goats are a source of several types of products, of which the main ones are milk, meat and ...
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]
Name Origin Notes Image Alpine [1]: 355 [2]: American Lamancha [1]: 355 [2]: American Pygmy [1]: 355 [2]: Kinder [1]: 355 [2]: Myotonic [1]: 355 [2]: Nigerian Dwarf ...