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American Pygmy Goat Breed Profile

American Pygmy Goat Breed Profile

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The American Pygmy goat is a breed of achondroplastic goat and is the most famous goat breed as a pet. It is small, compact, and stockily built. Like the Nigerian Dwarf, it derives from the West African Dwarf group of breeds of West Africa. Between 1930 and 1960, animals of this type were imported to the United States for use either as zoo animals or for research; some were later kept and bred as companion animals and established as a breed in 1975. The pygmy may also be known as the Cameroon goat or African Pygmy. It is quite different and separate from the British Pygmy breed. The goats made a journey and occupied a minimum of space. As for the supply of spruce, what they gave was transferred to long sea voyages without problems, and for the team, they were the source of milk and m...