Angora Goat

Facts about Angora Goats, "Scientific name for Angora Goat is Capra aegagrus hircus". The Angora goat is a variety of domestic goat that hails from Ankara in Turkey. The fleece obtained from the Angora Goat is shiny, which is called Mohair. One Angora Goat can produce hair that ranges in weight from (4 to 5 kg) per year. The Angora Goats are shorn two times a year, and in spite of their coats, the Angora Goats have relation to sheep. The Angora Goat produces different colors of fiber, such as white, dark black to grey and silver, brown and red color fibers. Among these fibers, the red color fiber will fade away as the goat grows.

Features of Angora Goat

An Angora Goat is more vulnerable to external parasites than other analogous animals, as their coats are thicker. The Angora Goats are neither prolific breeders, nor are they considered extremely hardy, being extremely weak during the initial few days of life. Furthermore, the Angora Goats have higher dietary requirements because of their quick hair growth. A poor-quality food will curtail the development of mohair.

Like with any domestic animals, stocking rates for an Angora Goat differs, according to the quality of available grazing and the accessibility of straw and hay as required. Although the Angora Goats are well-tailored to a grazing way of life. Scrubby meadow land that contains a range of grasses, profound-rooted weeds, such as shrubs and dock plants is better than a mono-customs of rye-grass. The Angora Goats need a safe fencing, but normal stock fencing is sufficient, provided it is strong and in fine condition.

Diet for Angora Goat

Angora Goats require a high-fiber diet, good meadow in summer, and access to straw and hay throughout the year, particularly kids. Both preserved and fresh forage must be rich in species except grass to offer a complete range of vitamins and minerals. Additional nourishing with concentrates in the winter season is also necessary, particularly for breeding animals and young stock. The wider the assortment of feed the Angora Goat are provided with, the more probable the Angora Goats are to flourish. The Angora Goats need clean and fresh water at all times, including both simple and mineral salt licks. A goat is a herbivores, that eats leaves, grass, hay and furns {plant eaters}.

The average lifespan of the Angora Goat breed ranges from 9 years to 11 years.
Tetanus is something to watch out for in Angora Goats and what are the proper shots to give them, (Tetanus-is an illness that is caused by Clostridium Tetany). Also do the research on de-worming your young Angora Goats (kids) and do the research on the proper doses. Also look up "Cocci" (If your fecal test shows an high rate of cocci (over 200 per gram) you need to take action quickly with your young (kid) Angora Goat. These are important facts so do your research on this if you are raising Angora Goats, especially young goats (kids).

Mothers will call their young so they stay close at all times, a baby Angora Goat is called a "kid". The Mother and kid Angora Goat recognize each others calls as soon as the mother gives birth. Baby Angora Goats are weaned off their moms after around 6 months. Its called "bleating" how goats communicate with each other. A "doe" or "nanny" is what a female Angora Goat is called. A "buck or "billy" is what they call a male Angora Goat. A male castrated goat is called a "wether". "Kidding" is the act of a goat giving birth.

Goats can even climb trees because they have great balance and some goat species can jump over 5 feet high. A Angora Goats eyes are rectangular rather than round. At night they have excellent vision and can due just as much at night. A goat herder notice how much energy his goats had, after eating coffee bushes and that's how coffee was first discovered.
There are over 210 breeds of goats in the world. Angora Goats have no teeth in their upper front jaw. Angora Goats have 24 molars and 8 incisors. Both sexes, female and male goats can have beards. Male Angora Goats reach puberty at the age between 4 to 8 months and the female Angora Goat is between 7 to 10 months. Male Angora Goats at the beginning of mating season go through a period called a "rut". The "rut" is the beginning of the courting for a doe, a very strong foul musky odor and fighting between bucks begins.

Goats can be born without or with horns "polled". Angora Goats have a four chamber stomach, goats are "Ruminant" is any hoofed even-toed mammal, that digests its food in two stages. First by eating the raw materials and regurgitating a semi-digested form known as "cud" (ruminating: chewing the cud.) then eating the cud. The goat is one of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. "Wattles" is that little tufts of hair that dangles from the goats throat. Angora Goats are not milk producers.

Tetanus is something to watch out for in Angora Goats and what are the proper shots to give them, (Tetanus-is an illness that is caused by Clostridium Tetany). Also do the research on de-worming your young Angora Goats (kids) and do the research on the proper doses. Also look up "Cocci" (If your fecal test shows an high rate of cocci (over 200 per gram) you need to take action quickly with your young (kid). These are important facts so do your research on this if you are raising Angora Goats, especially young Angora Goats (kids). Capra aegagrus was derived from the Wild Goat (C. aegagrus). In latin "Capra" is the root of the word "capricious" which means whimsical, mischievous, quirky, bizarre and suitable to change fast.