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Texas is the primary producer of meat goats, representing 38% of US production. [1] Male goats are generally not required for the dairy-goat industry and are usually slaughtered for meat soon after birth. In the UK, approximately 30,000 billy goats from the dairy industry are slaughtered each year. [3]
The precise ancestral heritage of the Lamancha goat is still unknown, though references to short-eared goats date back as far as records from ancient Persia. [3] [5] Goats from La Mancha, Spain, which are now known as Spanish Murciana, were first exhibited at the World's Fair in Paris [3] in 1904, labeled simply, "La Mancha, Cordoba, Spain."
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 ...
Goats of Oberhasli type were imported to the USA in 1906 and in 1920, but these goats were not bred pure and the bloodlines were lost. [1] In 1936, H. O. Pence imported five Chamois Colored Goats from Switzerland to the United States; all purebred Oberhasli in the USA descend from these. [1]
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 goats are normally white, but may also be black, brown or grey. The Angora is a moderately small goat, standing about 50 cm at the withers. [4]: 357 It is slender, elegant and light-framed; [3] the head is small, with semi-lop ears. It is usually horned; in billies the horns are commonly long, twisted and strong.
Approximately 140,000 goats were living in the wild on the islands and threatening the local ecosystem. Goats were killed by gunmen in helicopters and on foot. Judas goats were used to lure the remaining goats to their death. [13] The project cost 6 million dollars. [14]