Damascus goat - Wikipedia

Damascus Goat has seasonal breeding behaviour which lies from late August to mid December. Their reproductive life starts from the young age of 13 to 16 months. Damascusgoat FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch Breedofgoat DamascusgoatOthernamesAleppoDistributionMiddleEastTypeGoatUseMeatandmilk TheDamascusgoat,alsoknownasAleppo,Halep,Baladi,Damascene,Shami,orChami,isabreedofgoat.ItoriginatedinMiddleEastcountriessuchasSyriaandwasimportedbytheBritishintoCyprus,whereitsqualitieswereimprovedbybreeding.ItisagoodproducerofbothmilkandmeatandsohasbeengivenahighprioritybytheFoodandAgricultureOrganization(FAO)[1][2][3][4] ADamascusgoatnamedQahrwonthefirstprizeforthe"MostBeautifulGoat"titleattheMazayenal-MaazcompetitioninRiyadhonJune13,2008.[5]DamascusGoathasseasonalbreedingbehaviourwhichliesfromlateAugusttomidDecember.Theirreproductivelifestartsfromtheyoungageof13to16months.ThegestationperiodinDamascusGoatisof155days.Mostlynaturalbreedingmethodispreferredthoughthetrendofdoingartificialinseminationisalsoincreasing.Ahealthybuckcanbreedupto30does.[6] References[edit] ^Mavrogenis,A.P(1985),RelationshipsamongcriteriaofselectionforgrowthandmaturebodyweightintheDamascusgoat,AgriculturalResearchInstitute,retrieved13September2015 ^Mavrogenis,A.P;Constantinou,A;InstitoutonGeōrgikōnEreunōn(cyprus)(1991),SelectionindexandexpectedgeneticprogressinDamascusgoats,AgriculturalResearchInstitute,MinistryofAgricultureandNaturalResources,retrieved13September2015 ^Mavrogenis,A.;Antoniades,N.;Hooper,R.(2006),"TheDamascus(Shami)goatofCyprus",AnimalGeneticResourcesInformation(38):57–65,doi:10.1017/S1014233900002054 ^Al-Saef,A.M(2013-05-01),"GeneticandphenotypicparametersofbodyweightsinSaudiAradigoatandtheircrosseswithSyrianDamascusgoat",SmallRuminantResearch,112(1–3):35(4),ISSN 0921-4488 ^"Beautyisintheeyeofthegoatwatcher".SBSWorldNews.Archivedfromtheoriginalon2008-10-13.Retrieved2008-06-20. ^Joshi,Govind(2021-07-25)."DamascusGoat:Characters,BabyAndPrice".Retrieved2022-02-11. Thisgoat-relatedarticleisastub.YoucanhelpWikipediabyexpandingit.vte Retrievedfrom"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Damascus_goat&oldid=1071175670" Categories:DamascusDairygoatbreedsGoatbreedsoriginatinginSyriaGoatbreedsMeatgoatbreedsGoatstubsHiddencategories:ArticleswithshortdescriptionShortdescriptionisdifferentfromWikidataAllstubarticles Navigationmenu Personaltools NotloggedinTalkContributionsCreateaccountLogin Namespaces ArticleTalk English expanded collapsed Views ReadEditViewhistory More expanded collapsed Search Navigation MainpageContentsCurrenteventsRandomarticleAboutWikipediaContactusDonate Contribute HelpLearntoeditCommunityportalRecentchangesUploadfile Tools WhatlinkshereRelatedchangesUploadfileSpecialpagesPermanentlinkPageinformationCitethispageWikidataitem Print/export DownloadasPDFPrintableversion Languages العربيةFrançais日本語Русский Editlinks