Nubian Goat

A British breed of domestic goat, properly the Anglo-Nubian and known outside Britain simply as the Nubian, developed in the nineteenth century by crossing native British goats with a mixed population of large lop-eared goats imported from India, the Middle East and North Africa. It is recognized at once by large pendulous ears and a convex facial profile, has long legs, and may be polled or carry small curved horns, with a coat that ranges through black, chestnut, cream, fawn and white, often in patterned combinations. The breed is reared both for meat and for milk; its milk yield falls short of some Swiss dairy breeds but compensates with higher fat content, averaging about 4.8 percent, with does producing roughly 3.9 kilograms of milk a day, and kids mature quickly for meat production. Anglo-Nubians are now found in more than sixty countries.