Description:
The Golden Guernsey goat is a stunning creature of medium size. The goat is golden in color, as its name suggests, with tones ranging from light blond to dark bronze. Compared to other British milking goats, they have smaller, more delicate bones, and a wide range of coat lengths. Very few males do not have horns, which are typically exceedingly beautiful. For instance, none of the 200 or so Golden Guernsey calves born in the Rayton Herd herd have been polled, hornless, males, or females.
Behavior:
The Golden Guernsey goats are extremely gentle and sociable animals. Like the majority of other dairy goats, they exhibit exemplary temperament. The bucks are believed to have a very strong odor.
Benefits/Uses:
The Golden Guernsey goat is a type of dairy goat. It mostly serves to produce milk. But in some ways, it helps with meat production.
Origin/History:
An uncommon breed that originated in the Channel Islands off the coast of Britain is the Golden Guernsey. Between 1920 and 1950, local breeds were crossed with Anglo-Nubian and Swiss strains to create the breed. The English Golden Guernsey Club, later to become the Golden Guernsey Goat Society, was established in 1965 after the Golden Guernsey was exported to the United Kingdom.
The FAO classified the Golden Guernsey as a “endangered-maintained” breed in 2007.: 120 British Guernsey had a population of 171 and the Golden Guernsey had 1381, both of which were classified as “at risk” by DAD-IS in 2019. The Golden Guernsey goat was classified as “minority” on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust’s goat checklist in 2020.
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