Goat - unpretentious, clean, very convenient and profitable for a household pet.Of course, it needs the conditions of detention, care and attention, even the performance of some whims, for which it will pay a hundred times with the owner.Healing milk, delicious meat - that is dairy goats.Breeding them - it is painstaking, but simple, quickly pays for itself.The cost of food at the stall device is much smaller than a cow.They are easy to care for, a lot of time is required.Watch the behavior of goats interesting.Kids love to play with kids - it's a real circus home.
goat feed and cure
Goat milk - nutritional and dietary, analogue of human breast.It compared with cow more protein, calcium and phosphorus - "building blocks" of the skeleton and teeth, it is fatter, and most importantly - allergenic.Therefore, there is no better product than goat milk for bottle-children, for people allergic to cow's perceiving.In the old days, when there was a mixture, to what is now resort to feed infants, babies fed goat's milk.Also speak approvingly of it mature, experienced problems with digesting food.Animaloterapiya (Healing with animals) recommends to have a goat suffering from hypertension, Graves or cholelithiasis.Milk and chat with the pet can cure these ills.
For an example of the usefulness of the goats go away is not necessary.Recall Robinson.With the goats he was fed, dressed and shod, communicating with them brightened many years of loneliness in a foreign land.Goat milk is traditionally called "the poor cow".But in recent years, goat milk cow is valued more, moreover, it is rare in the sale.
numerous tribes
goats - one of the first animals with many years of service to man - 9000 years.As a productive direction, they are divided into 5 groups: COAT, feather, meat, dairy and mixed (wool, feathers, meat and milk).On every continent, there are representatives of horned tribe for different purposes.In Southeast Asia, mostly raise goats for meat in the Altai Mountains frolic down.In Europe, mainly bred dairy goat breeds.They contain not only the population of milk products and for the preparation thereof.There are a lot of goat breeding farms supplying raw materials to the food business, the Enterprise.For other specialty is breeding goats for sale.Continue breeding experiments to improve the quality of milk and the constitution of the animals to produce new species.
Consider the breed of dairy goat - the most productive and better adapted to cold winters than African Nubian goats.It - Saanen, toggenburgskie, Alpine (Swiss, French, British), Megrelian and Gorky dairy goats.Photo transfer is accompanied by a representative of each of the exterior signs, characteristic of productivity.
Saanen goats
prevalence and the most prominent of the breed of dairy goats - Saanen.Their homeland - Zaanental valley in Switzerland.Breeding-breed in the mountainous alpine meadows with a wonderful climate lasted for several centuries.First exhibited in Paris in 1856 under the name of white hornless goat Saanen.Gradually, the breed has spread to the European countries, which was exported to the improvement of dairy goats local.
in the world is the biggest goats: breeding uterine height at the withers 75-80 cm (sometimes 85), their live weight of 60 kg (90 kg of some individuals);goats-proizoditeli height at the withers 82-86 cm weigh 70 kg (some 100 kg).Newborn goat an average of 3 kg, goats - more than 4 kg.In 2 months of their weight reaches 10 kg in goats and 12 kg in goats.Yearling goats of 30 kg, 35-40 goats.
Exterior Zaanen goats
Appearance - a sample of dairy goats.The Constitution heavy or delicate dense backbone (skeleton) with strong moderately developed muscles.Leather is a durable and thin, covered with fuzz-awn without undercoat.The head of a dry medium, hornless, ears "horn" directed forward and slightly to the side.The neck is long flat sometimes "catkins."The trunk is deep, long, wide enough.The legs are strong, correctly placed.The hooves are light yellow.Colour White.On the skin, the ears, the udder sometimes black pigmentation in patches.A good supply of ball or pear-shaped udder with well-developed nipples.
Lactation up to 330 days a year.Yalova goats are milked continuously for several years.The yield from the 600 or more liters per lactation when milk fat content of not less than 4%.Record in 3507 liters until defeated.Dairy goats should be kept away from the goat producer, otherwise the milk will be unpleasant taste and odor.
Saanen goats fertile precocity and stamina.In the absence of a closely covering thoroughbred traits are passed to offspring in full.
of Toggenburg Goat
in the 18th century by the Swiss national selection created toggenburgskaya breed goats.Over the next three centuries as a result of cross-breeding of this breed with local breeds in different countries displayed the Czech brown, noble toggenburgskaya British togennburgskaya goats.The Russian unit togennburgskie goats first arrived at the beginning of the last century.
Exterior breed stands brown suit, but there are also spotted animals.Toggenburgskie goats recognizable by evident signs - white marks: 2 strips arranged in parallel on the face, ears fringe along the edges of the lower part of the tail and legs from the hock to the hoof is also white.The Constitution is strong and dry, the body of a harmonious addition to the height at the withers of 0.6 m. The long head on a long neck.Direct slightly flat profile.Toggenburgskie hornless goat, goat horns, but there are hornless.Straight back, protruding ribs.Limbs strong of moderate length, set properly, hooves strong stable.The rump is broad, big udder.The coat is silky, back and thighs grows up to 20 cm. Weight 70 kg manufacturers, from ewes to 55 kg.
Toggenburgskaya prolific breed goats (kids in litter usually 2-3), easily acclimate to the winter and mountain conditions, it prefers shade and coolness in the summer, but demanding on the ration, which determines the taste of milk.
Lactation up to 300 days a year.Kozlenev milk yield in the first 500 liters, followed by milk yield Okoth grow up to 1000 liters without reducing volumes in the winter.Fat in milk% 3-4.Cheese excellent taste.
Goat Alpine breed
breeding animals of this breed began in the mountainous regions of Switzerland by breeding-national.Then, the selection continued in France and England.There were exported Swiss alpine goats and crossed with the best local rocks.
General "alpine" features
Pets large size: 4 years old goat at the withers height 76 cm weight 61 kg, kid - 81 cm and 77 kg.The neck is long, dry head with erect ears, a straight profile.There horned and hornless.The milk yield and fertility is high - from 1200 to 1600 liters of milk per year with good feeding and the right conditions, a few kids in one lambing.Milk is a delicious, fat (5.5%) and nutritional (protein 3%).
Alpine goats are unpretentious to the diet, adapting to new environments quickly, in a herd tend to be leaders (need to make sure that does not discourage others from bird feeders), comprehension, to the owner affectionate, friendly.Alpine dairy goat breeds are indispensable in a mountainous area - they are graceful and agile, real "climbers" and will produce their own food there, where you do not climb up the cow, and the evening will bring milk to the owner.Of course, the milk yield will be smaller, but a useful, created from medicinal plants.These goats are suitable for stabling.
Distinctiveness color
Swiss engaged in cultivation of alpine goats joke that every time they get Kozlenev "colorful gift" - those born colored goats.Classic colors are "white neck" - the head and torso until the middle white, and the rest - gray or black, or "red neck" - brown head-neck, shoulders and back of black color.There are colorful (white spots on a black background and vice versa), brown with black spots, brown with a black stripe along the ridge and black legs.There are even goats - from the head to the middle of the black trunk, and then to the tail belye.Chisto white coat and brown Alpine breed goats are not considered - this is typical for the suit and toggenburgskoy Zaanen rocks.
Species Alpine breed
French Alpine goat's milk, which is representative of the image to the reader, bred on the slopes of the French Alps, the best of local breeds crossed with the Swiss purebred goats.Adapted to the conditions of the mountains.Different Color - white, spotted, under the color of chamois.There are horns, and without them.The average productivity of up to 900 liters of calving to calving.In France, some farms keep livestock 1,000 goats.Breeding work carried out to improve the milk composition and suitability to machine milking animals.
British Alpine breed, often called black toggenburgskoy, registered at the beginning of the last century in England.Pure black suit with a white "Swiss stamps" - strip on the face, ears border, "stockings" on their feet, "podboyka" at the bottom of the tail.Goat tall and slim, lightweight long head on a graceful neck, erect ears slightly pointed forward.Daily milk yield of up to 4.5 liters.
breeds of dairy goats
in Russia is a worthy representative of Gorky's goat.The story of the breed is not certain.But we know that its ancestors were the Russian dairy goats and white-zaanenki foreigners, imported at the beginning of the last century in the Nizhny Novgorod region, called in Soviet times, Gorky, why, and given the name of the breed.Currently, these include goat population and economic peasant farmers of the Nizhny Novgorod region.Among domestic Russian breed is considered the best breeders and people's efforts continues to evolve in the direction of milk production.
Exterior Gorky Zaanen goats is similar to, but the animals a bit smaller in size and weight: 50 kg goat, goats massive - and more than 60 kg live weight.Characterized by a white suit with short hair and undercoat - up to 10% down.In different parts of the housing wool different density and length.Fertility is good: usually worth 2 goat kid, but there are cases Kozlenev 4-5 kids.
Lactation up to 10 months per year at an average nadaivanii during this time 500 liters.With good care milk yields reach 1000 liters and more.After six months Kozlenev subsistence milk yield are kept in one volume, then reduced considerably.
obtained from goats fluff - 250 g for Cesky, excellent goat used for high-quality shevrovoy skin.
Popular today pedigree dairy goats, the price of which, frankly, fantastic (purebred goat monthly costs over 30 thousand. Rubles), not all available.Beginners can give advice: buy a cheap Gorky goat adapted to cold, unpretentious to fodder, fertility and good productivity tasty and rich milk.
Mingrelian goat
In western Georgia, Mingrelia, bred dairy goat breed Mingrelian lowland and mountain type.On flat terrain residents of the settlements and kept on a leash in the stalls of the first type of animal.They feed their harvested vegetable food, waste from fruit and vegetables.Goats lowland ones, the average weight of ewes height at the withers is 33-37 cm 60 kg box larger and heavy - under 50 kg.For 200 days of lactation of goats nadaivayut an average of 300 liters of milk, give the record holder for the 750 Fertility small: only 20 out of 100 ewes bring 2 kid, the other one.
Mountain goats larger than their counterparts with a strong constitution and rough bone, more massive.Weight 50 kg goats, goats, up to 70 kg.Graze on high pastures from spring to late autumn, to winter them down from the top to the mountain valleys, where they are grazing.The productivity of an average of 200 to 250 liters per six-month lactation.Fertility small - 110 kids from 100 ewes.
Color Mingrelian goats, white, red and gray.Short hair rough.All animals with well-developed curved horns in the form of the letter S for a few elongated head with a beard of average length.
Megrelian goats are resistant to disease.The resettlement of these goats in other areas will improve endurance and productivity of indigenous breeds of goats.
Breeding goats
adult purebred goats for breeding are hard to find and pay for them will have to expensive.You can go the other way - away from the goats and goats purebred parents of different farms, performing most important rule - a ban on inbreeding.It is safest to turn to the breeders breeding goats.Remember the good old rule: expensive but nice, cheap and just - you know, "focus" may not be possible.
Inspect goat producer and goat-mother - thoroughbred signs they must be explicit.According to the seller of the high productivity of the uterus to check the practice - even to milk a goat in your presence.Try milk taste and smell.
unsuitable lambing of goats, which were more than two.Special attention is the future of the manufacturer.Goat on the tribe to be hornless.Check the development of genitals kids.
Seller inquired how the breast.Important: before two months of age kids mother's milk should be their main diet.Growth and development are judged by weight, appetite, appearance of hair coat and playfulness object of sale.
And goats profits to a permanent place of detention.The rest (good breeding) depends on proper feeding and caring animal care.
