Goats

Environmental materials

Rough "blank" will keep hooves properly formed

Texas

Spanish goats came to America with the early Spanish explorers and roamed wild through "blank" and Oklahoma before domestication.

Fiber

Texas leads the meat and blank totals with approximately one million head

New Zealand

The Giko breed originated where before it was selected for commercial traits.

Dairy

The demand for natural and wholesome products has sparked growth in "blank" goat production.

Boer

The importation of what goat allowed the American goat industry to produce a muscular, large framed animal that excelled in gain efficiency.

Pasture Grazing

The least intensive avenue of production is simply "blank" where goats depend solely on pasture forages for nutrition.

Elastrader

The most widely used form of goat castration utilizes a "blank"

Guard

Cashmere is retained after removing the coarse outer coat or "blank" hair from a combed sample.

parasitic

Diseases can occur from poor nutrition, infections, and serving as "blank" hosts

grazing

Goats are finding a home in areas of the United States where rangeland is too rough or blank is too thin to sustain cattle or sheep

low-quality

Goats have the ability to efficiently convert blank forages into meat and milk

Outside elements

Goats prefer to in or near a shelter during the night, therefore a shelter should provide protection from...?

Cape

Goats shorn during the fall or winter months should be left with a "blank" or strip of mohair down their neck and back

Forages

Goats will typically consume around three to five percent of their body weight in "blank" each day

Religious Dishes

Growth in the United States ethnic population continues to create a demand for this protein source in festive and blank

2

How many sets of kids are boer goats capable of producing?

high butter fat content

La Mancha is a hardy breed that is capable of producing large amounts of milk with...?

Bloodless

Many producers prefer "blank" means of dehorning such as disbudding.

Smoother

Mohair tends to be "blank" than wool and has built in shrink resistance maintaining size and form.

Cross breeding programs

Nubians make a suitable component in many market...?

Wether

castrated male goat

2.5 million

goats are used for meat, milk and mohair production

Ketosis

is caused by rapidly matabilizing fat

Myotonia

occurs from an abnormality in the chloride channels of muscle cells

Enterotoxemia

overeating disease

Ruminants

Goats are classified as what? Meaning they have a four compartment stomach

Cashmere

A goat fiber that has seen expanded interest throughout the years.

seasonal

Angoras are WHAT KIND of breeders and are not as prolific as other breeds?

Depredation

To avoid "blank" in a herd producers can utilize fencing, penning animals at night and the use of guard animals.

Cud

What do goats chew routinely until the forages are small enough to pass through the remaining compartments of the stomach?

Scratch wire

What is an extra string of barbed wire, located a few feet from the ground?

Mohair

What production began after the Civil War when ranchers introduced goats to the state.

Disbudding

What usually takes place on young animals when their horns are small or are still buds?

Taggenburg Valley of Switzerland

Where did the oldest dairy breed originate?

Left

Which ear identifies the actual animals id?

Right

Which ear identifies the operation that owns the animal?