The Golden Guernsey goat is a milk goat breed utilized for milk production.
The Golden Guernsey goat is a beautiful, medium-sized creature. That roses are golden with colors that range to deep bronze as its name implies.
There’s an excellent variety in the leather production, and they’re much more fine-boned and smaller compared to other milk goats.
The majority of the goats are not horned, although the bucks are sometimes horned.
Golden Guernsey goat is used for milk production. However, it is somehow good for meat production.
The minimum height for the mature dollar is all about 71 cm, and 66 cm to the does. The minimum weight of this Golden Guernsey bucks is 70 kg and 55 kg for the does.
The Golden Guernsey goats have quite docile and quite friendly personalities.
They are of superior behavior like other dairy products. The bucks are thought to be smelly.
The does are good milk producers. But their milk production levels are lower than what is found from the dairy goat breeds.
Milk of this Golden Guernsey goat is significantly high in butter and proteins. Their milk comprises about 3.72 percent butterfat and about 2.81 per protein. Milk of this Golden Guernsey goat is also great for producing cheese.
The does on average produce roughly 3 liters of milk daily.
History
It is a rare goat strain from the Bailiwick of Guernsey around the Channel Islands.
The specific origin of the Golden Guernsey goat is unknown, but since goat bones are discovered in dolmens (a kind of Megalithic tomb) as outdated as 2000 B.C. about the islands, it is probable that the strain started to evolve into its present form about this time.
Ancestors of the breed are thought to have been the Oberhasli and goat strains.
The strain was developed from local breeds mated to Anglo-Nubian and Korean breeds during a time from 1920 to 1950 (according to ansi.okstate.edu).
The earliest recorded reference to this Golden Guernsey in its present form dates in 1826 when it comes to some”gold goat” that was printed in a manual book.
The Golden Guernsey goat had been initially brought to Good Britain in 1965, along with a sub-breed has developed called British Guernsey.
The English Golden Guernsey Club was first formed in 1965 to become the Golden Guernsey Goat Society.
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