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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]
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 ...
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
With at least 25 states and 50,000 miles under her belt, Frankie may just be the most well-traveled goat in the United States. The domesticated animal, a pygmy/Nigerian dwarf cross, spends several ...
Nigerian Dwarf goat; Nigora; O. Oberhasli goat; P. Pygora goat; S. San Clemente Island goat; Spanish goat This page was last edited on 15 April 2011, at 02:43 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
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