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Americans are showing more interest in owning miniature cows, goats, donkeys and other diminutive farm animals, a trend driven by hobby farmers looking for easy-to-manage livestock and ...
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.
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]
The Nashville Zoo now has 21 Nigerian dwarf goats in their care, said the zoo in a news release. ... Flagg has 17 points and 14 rebounds as No. 3 Duke beats Virginia 80-62. Advertisement ...
The Nigerian Dwarf, like the American Pygmy Goat, derives from these, but does not resemble the stocky West African Dwarf in conformation – it has been bred to have the appearance of a miniature dairy goat. [4]: 399 [5]: 35 It was at first reared as a show breed and companion animal; selection was for appearance and for docility. [2]
The Pygmy is a British breed of dwarf goat. It is small, compact and generally stockily built. It is small, compact and generally stockily built. It was established in the 1980s by fusion of the various miniature goat populations of the United Kingdom into a single breed.
The Metro Richmond Zoo in Moseley, Virginia, has announced the rare and exciting arrival of a baby pygmy hippo on December 9. The calf was born to parents Iris and Corwin after a seven-month ...
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 ...