An ideal food for Angoras should contain about 20% protein. The principle nutrition elements of their regular food are minerals, protein, trace elements, energy and vitamins. They also require high quality food for proper growth and maximum production. For commercial hair production from Angora goats they need nutritious food. They hold the tree branches down and eats leaves from there by standing on their hind legs. They also generally eat a lots of roughage that includes weeds, bark, leaves or woody shrubs. Like other goat breeds, Angoras are also browsers and love grazing and eating green grasses, corns, plants etc. The does generally produce 1-2 kids each time. Milk of Angora goat contains about 5.7% fat. The breed is not suitable for commercial meat and milk production. There is a good width between good spring of rib and the front legs. Their ears are pendulous, legs are short and small sized, tails are short and held high, back is straight and very strong, their pelvis has s slight downward tilt but not extreme. Both adult Angora bucks and does have a pair of horns curved to back. Male goats produce up to 12 pounds of skirted fiber and female goat produce about 8 pounds of skirted fiber. These goats are of various colors including shades of red through tans and browns, gray through black and combinations of these colors with white and many more color. And adult female goat weights about 100-110 pounds. An adult Angora buck generally weights about 180-225 pounds. Even they are also smaller than some common sheep breeds. ![]() There is a great production unit of Angoras in the Texas of United States.Īngora goats are very smaller sized animal than other milk and meat goat breeds. South Africa imported this breed in 1838. In 1785 France imported a large number of these goats. Spanish Government imported this breed to their country in 1765. In the year of 1554, a pair of Angora was imported to Europe by Charles V. This goat is available in almost all countries around the world. Their meat and milk production is not profitable enough like other goat breeds.Īngora goats generally are of small size, hardy, long-lived, requires minimal care and facilities. ![]() ![]() They produce bright and very high quality hair. They are very beautiful and mainly raised by the farmers for their mohair production. The Angora goat is named after Ankara, Turkey, which was historically known as Angora. Some people says that, the ancient living place of Angora goat was China. Angora goat is a very common and popular breed of domestic goat which was originated from a district named ‘Angora’ near the Himalayan of Asia.
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