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A Valais Blackneck billy Engraving of a Valais Blackneck from the Journal des Eleveurs, 1905. The Valais Blackneck is a Swiss breed of domestic goat from the canton of Valais.It is distributed in southern Switzerland – the largest concentration is in the area of Visp (Viège) – and in neighbouring areas of northern Italy; it is present in modest numbers in Austria and Germany.
It is a small goat, with a black head and neck and the remainder of the body white. In 2010 it was considered "critically endangered" by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust , as there were fewer than 100 registered breeding females in the United Kingdom, [ 2 ] but by 2012 had been upgraded to "vulnerable", [ 3 ] where it remains as of 2019, with 200 ...
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 ...
Near Llanfachraeth, on Anglesey. The British Alpine is a British breed of dairy goat bred in the early twentieth century. It is black with white Swiss markings on the face.. The foundation stock included a nanny with this colouration acquired in Paris in 1903 and goats of other breeds, probably including the Swiss Grisons Striped and Toggenburg and the now-extinct Sundgau of Alsace, as well as ...
Two years after the scandal erupted, Shasta County has agreed to pay $300,000 to the girl's family to settle the legal dispute over the floppy-eared brown-and-white goat named Cedar. The young ...
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Every day for three months, Jessica Long's young daughter walked and fed her goat, bonding with the brown and white floppy-eared animal named Cedar. But when it was time for Cedar to be sold and ...
The body of the domestic Balkan goat is overgrown with a medium-long or long shiny coat of different pigmentation (reddish or gray, but can also be black, as well as chestnut, brown, patchy, and white) The head is of medium length with very mobile ears. Goats are mostly horned (higher terrains), and can be polled (lower terrains).