the most important trunk-form of our house-goats is the Bezoarziege (Capra aegagrus). Whether also the screw-goat (Capra falconeri) is possible as ancestor of some goat-races, is controversial.
House-goats serve the milk-production mainly. But also otherwise goats deliver valuable products: Meat, fur, leather (Nappa) Saffian, Maroquin etc..), Hair (mohair, Angora) and horn.
The Domestikation began approximately 9000 years ago. The goat is bred by races in a multiplicity. An odd appearance of the breeding-races is the frequently occurring little "bell, that usually is 2 skin-appendages, that hang down from the throat. Game-goats don't have these structures.
Breeding-races Hochgezüchtete milk-goats are the deer-colored German noble-goat and the Swiss Saanenziege. Both races are horn-free.
Very beautiful resistant races are the Jämtlandziege from Sweden and the Walliser goat from Switzerland. The bucks of these goats have beautifully swung, big horns. The Walliser goat is black in the fore body-half, in which colored white rear.
The cashmere-goat delivers a very fine wool, that is used for the manufacture of the valuable cashmere-scarfs.
The long-haired wool of the Angora-goat is processed to mohair and camel-hair (incorrectly "camel-hair").
Hängeohrziegen of different types live in India, Arabia and Africa. With these races, there are leggy forms and such that possesses one "geramsten" head (kurzschnauzigen).
From Cameroon, the funny dwarf-goats come, whose shoulder-height lies with 40 cm. This race is shown in zoological gardens regularly.
Goats either become in the stall or neutral-finishes held. they usually come back to the feeding and to the salt-reception into the stall. The daily milk-performance can amount to 5 - 6 liters with a Saanenziege.
Goats as landscape-annihilators The goat-attitude is exactly for the "small man" of big benefit. However, the extensive goat-attitude, as it is driven in wide sharing of the world, means a severe danger for each nature-landscape. Furthermore, the goats are food-competitors of game-animals. Goats are "naschhaft" and eat the young instincts of trees and shrubs with preference and repress the forests this way more and more. Without goats, wide parts of the Mediterranean-area still would be forested, the today desolate Karstlandschaften are.
Islands in the oceans, on which goats had been abandoned, were bald-eaten literally. The Robinson-island of the Juan-Fernandez-Inseln and the Napoleon-island St. Helena are examples for this destruction.
Every measure for the reforestation of an area would have to neutral-finish goats been begun with the elimination of this at first once.
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