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  2. Nigerian Dwarf goat - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. West African dwarf goat - Wikipedia

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    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] West African Dwarf goats are capable of breeding at twelve to eighteen months.

  4. Artificial insemination of livestock and pets - Wikipedia

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  5. Artificial insemination - Wikipedia

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    The first recorded case of artificial insemination was John Hunter in 1790, who helped impregnate a linen draper's wife. [1] [2] The first reported case of artificial insemination by donor occurred in 1884: William H. Pancoast, a professor in Philadelphia, took sperm from his "best looking" student to inseminate an anesthetized woman without her knowledge.

  6. Animal breeding - Wikipedia

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    Breeding stock is a group of animals used for the purpose of planned breeding. When individuals are looking to breed animals, they look for certain valuable traits in purebred animals, or may intend to use some type of crossbreeding to produce a new type of stock with different, and presumably superior abilities in a given area of endeavor.

  7. High aspirations: Former Kansas mayor’s tourism vision ...

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    A Nigerian dwarf goat owned by former Wilson Mayor David Criswell climbs up on a box inside an abandoned grain storage building. Criswell currently owns 12 goats but city ordinance guidelines only ...

  8. No kidding! Nashville Zoo celebrates the arrival of four baby ...

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    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 ...

  9. American Pygmy - Wikipedia

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    [3]: 355 By the 1970s, two distinct types had developed: one broad, compact and solid like the original African stock, the other more delicate, much like a dairy goat in miniature. [ 5 ] : 39 The latter became the Nigerian Dwarf , while the former became the American Pygmy, for which a breed society was established in 1975, and a herd book ...