But they are also used for milk in the Asian countries. The goats have white-coloured hair with tan spots over their body. The does weigh about 50 to 80 pounds while bucks weigh about 80 to pounds. Beetal is considered a dual-purpose breed for its remarkable meat production alongside milk yield. This Indian dairy breed was derived from the Jamnapuri breed of goats. The goats are tall with both sexes having medium-sized horns. The adult female weighs around to pounds and the adult male weighs up to pounds.
Jamunapuri is a long-legged dairy breed that originated near the Jamna River in India. It is one of the ancestors of Anglo-Nubian breed. The goats have roman noses with often undershot upper jaws. This is a unique recessive trait that makes the goat prefer browsing overgrazing.
The Jamunapuri male and female goats weigh up to and pounds respectively. The Malabari goat breed is widely found in Southeast India. The goats are of mixed ancestry, due to crossing with dairy breeds from Northern India. They come in a wide range of colours and both sexes have horns but polled ones are also common. They are small-sized goats with males weighing up to 90 pounds and females weighing up to 70 pounds. Maltese is an Italian goat breed originating from the island of Malta.
The breed comes in various colours, short or long hair, but the goats found in Italy are normally white coloured with long hair. The average body weight of male and female Maltese goats is and pounds respectively. This Italian breed of medium size has a good level of milk production and has very unique corkscrew-like long horns pointing vertically upwards. Ionica is another Italian breed with medium-sized body and medium level milk production. This breed is usually kept in small herds. The goats have long lop ears and no horns.
This dual-purpose milk and meat goat is a small, hardy breed with long black hair. The face is straight with beards and has longhorns that are flat and twisted backwards. Kilis breed was developed by crossbreeding the Damascus and Anatolian Black goats.
They are usually black but some may be grey. They have long hair and may have horns. This French breed is of quite a recent origin. It is a medium-sized goat well adapted to temperate regions. The goats have brown to black short hair all over the body except white bellies, legs and area below the tail. Damascus is the most important dairy breed for Eastern Mediterranean regions.
It is a tall breed with a Roman nose and long shaggy reddish-brown hair. Long, twisted horns may be present in males while in females they may be sickle-shaped. The breed is quite prolific.
Males weigh up to pounds and females up to pounds. Serrana is a medium-sized breed of Portugal. It is mostly kept in small herds. The goats have reddish-brown hair. Horns, beards and wattles are common in these goats. The Nordic breed includes native goats from Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The goats have long hair and may come in a variety of colours, but brown is most common.
They have short legs, erect ears and sabre-shaped horns, although some may be polled. This is a fascinating article. I really appreciate the way that you have broken down the breeds by geographic locations. I was interested to find a breed from Malta in Italy. The first time I saw a Nubian, with their long floppy ears and curved Roman nose, I fell in love. Nubians produce the highest butterfat content of the large dairy breeds.
Nubians, though large, are an uppity, high-energy breed. They are also extremely loud at times. Both the kids and the adults utter a loud, hollering call when they want something.
They can be a bit more willful than other breeds and a bit more destructive. In my opinion, they are harder to train and more cunning. The LaMancha is the only goat breed developed in the United States. It was created by Eula Fay Frey in Oregon in the s. The LaMancha was developed from short-eared Spanish goats crossed with Nubians. The resulting breed has very short ear flaps categorized into two types:. The Toggenburg is the oldest dairy breed.
It originated in Switzerland, developed in the Toggenburg Valley at Obertoggenburg. They are a spirited, playful breed. Their coloring is often a grayish brown with cream stripes from the eyes to the nose and cream on the lower legs. The Nigerian Dwarf is the smallest goat in the dairy group. Their milk is also higher in protein. They are a playful breed, easy to care for and wonderful around children.
Click here for our Goat Breeds Poster. Joan Dean Rowe a veterinarian on facu lty at University of California- D avis first had dairy goats as a 4-H project when she was a child, learning about animal care and health, and this led to her becoming a veterinarian.
She says dairy goats are great for children, to help teach them about responsible care, milking twice a day, etc. Two of the best goats for milk will produce enough — with each doe averaging three quarts a day for up to 10 months — to feed your family all year. Goats have a short generation. Does are typically bred in the fall. Does come into heat for three days every 18 to 21 days. If you have a buck, keep does separate from him until they come into heat. Once bred, they should be separated again, or their milk if they are lactating does may have a bad flavor.
Kidding takes place about days after breeding. If she is continuously milked, a doe will lactate for up to 10 months. She should be allowed to dry up for at least two months before having kids again. Dairy goats produce so much milk that you can let their kids nurse and still have plenty for your use.
After the kids are at least two weeks old, you can confine them overnight and milk the doe in the morning, and then let the kids be with mom through the rest of the day before locking them up again for the night. Most people feed grain to the does while they are being milked. Proper nutrition is important for lactating females.
A lactating doe needs good-quality hay or pasture. A pound doe needs about five pounds of concentrate, plus high-quality hay. The concentrate ration can be divided between milkings, if you are milking twice daily. Colostrum can be heat treated degrees F for one hour to avoid infecting the kids with caprine arthritis-encephalitis a virus that can be passed from the dam to the newborn kid via her colostrum , but heating colostrum destroys the antibodies, and it cannot provide passive immunity to other diseases.
If used for brush control, that diet would be insufficient to support reproduction and milk production. These should not be animals that are kidding and raising kids. There are similarities between cow dairies and goat dairies, but goats are more labor-intensive.
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