Recommended Reading ~ Breeds & Breeding Goats

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Goat Breeds

Breed Websites Listing

Choosing a goat for a small property

General Conformation

Goat Colors and Markings

 

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You'll find the breed page project instructions here: http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=13787
If you want to volunteer to do a page, please PM elevan (If the breed is bolded then someone has already volunteered for that breed.

Breeds of Goats:

Dairy breeds:
Alpine
American Lamancha
Anatolian Black Goat
Anglo-Nubian (Nubian)
Appenzell Goat
Argentata of Etna
Beetal
Belgian Fawn
Benadir Goat
Bhuj goat
Bionda dell'Adamello
Booted Goat
British Alpine
Brown Shorthair Goat
Canary Island Goat
Carpathian
Chamois Colored
Charnequeira
Chengdu Brown
Corsican Goat
Daera Din Panah
Damani
Damascus goat
Danish Landrace Goat
Don Goat
Dutch Landrace
Dutch Toggenburg
Erzgebirge Goat
Finnish Landrace Goat
Garganica
Girgentana Goat
Golden Guernsey
Grisons Striped
Hailun Goat
Hasi Goat
Hongtong Goat
Hungarian Improved
Irish Goat
Jamnapari goat
Jonica
Kamori
Kinder
Loashan
Majorera
Maltese
Messinese Goat
Mini Oberhasli
Murcia-Granada
Murciana goat
Nigerian Dwarf
Norwegian
Oberhasli
Orobica
Peacock Goat
Poitou Goat
Pyrenean Goat
Red Mediterranean
Russian White
Saanen goat
Sable Saanen
Sarda
Swedish Landrace
Tauernsheck
Thuringian Goat
Toggenburg
Valais Blackneck
Verata
White Shorthaired
Xinjiang Goat

Fiber breeds:

Altai Mountain Goat
Anatolian Black Goat
Angora goat
Australian Cashmere Goat
Cashmere goat
Changthangi
Chengde Polled
Chigu Goat
Don Goat
Hexi Cashmere
Huaitoutala
Hyrcus
Jining Grey
Kaghani
Nigora goat
Pygora Goat
Uzbek Black
Xinjiang Goat
Zalawadi
Zhiwulin Black
Zhongwei Goat

Goatskin breeds:

Black Bengal
Don Goat
Garganica
Jining Grey
Qinshan Goat
Sahelian Goat
Zhongwei Goat

Meat breeds:

Arapawa
Barbari Goat
Beetal
Benadir Goat
Bhuj goat
Black Bengal
Boer goat
Booted Goat
Canind
Carpathian
Chamois Colored
Changthangi
Chappar
Charnequeira
Chengde Polled
Chengdu Brown
Chigu Goat
Chu
Duan Goat
Fainting goat / Myotonic / Tennessee Meat Goat
Haimen Goat
Hasi Goat
Hejazi Goat
Huaipi
Irish Goat
Jamnapari goat
Kaghani
Kalahari Red
Kiko goat
Mini Silky Fainter
Moxot
Nachi Goat
Norwegian
Philippine Goat
Pygmy (African Pygmy)
Pyrenean Goat
Repartida
Rove goat
Sahelian Goat
San Clemente Island Goat
Somali Goat
Spanish goat
Stiefelgeiss
Valais Blackneck
Verata
Xinjiang Goat
Xuhai
Zalawadi
Zhiwulin Black