. Modern milk goats : status of the milk goat industry; methods of profitable milk production; care and management of commercial herds and household goats . Goats. 80 MODERN MILK GOATS type, being rather deeply divided with long teats easily grasped. The milk is very rich, richer than the best Jersey cow milk, surpassing the Swiss breeds in this respect. The best records of daily and annual yields do not show such a high average as those established by does of the Swiss breeds, although there are many exceptionally heavy milkers fcjund among the pm-e bred and g r a d e Anglo- Nubians. The Swis
. Modern milk goats : status of the milk goat industry; methods of profitable milk production; care and management of commercial herds and household goats . Goats. 80 MODERN MILK GOATS type, being rather deeply divided with long teats easily grasped. The milk is very rich, richer than the best Jersey cow milk, surpassing the Swiss breeds in this respect. The best records of daily and annual yields do not show such a high average as those established by does of the Swiss breeds, although there are many exceptionally heavy milkers fcjund among the pm-e bred and g r a d e Anglo- Nubians. The Swiss Breeds. —Saancns and Tog- g e n h u r g s . — The Saanens and Toggen- burg goats are so closely allied in origin and type that it is convenient to describe them as one group. lioth breeds were created by a process of selection from the common Alpine race, and both were selected for the same attributes except in point of coloi'. The Swiss breeds are like the Anglo-Nul)ia]is, rather rangy-, lean animals—a characteristic of all good dairy types—but they have rather less length of limb than the Nubians. The Saanen is sometimes said to be a larger goat than the Toggenburg, but it would appear that in our. Fig. 25.—Anglo-Nubian Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Richards, Irmagarde. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott
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