British Alpine Goat

The British Alpine is a dairy goat breed developed in Britain in the early twentieth century, founded on a black-and-white-marked doe named Sedgemere Faith imported from the Jardin Zoologique dAcclimatation in Paris in 1903, and further shaped by Swiss Grisons Striped and Toggenburg goats, the now-extinct Alsatian Sundgau, and native British stock. It is a large, long-legged goat, averaging about 64 kilograms and 76 to 97 centimetres tall, with a black coat carrying white Swiss markings on the face, rump, ear margins and lower legs, and may be horned or naturally polled. Bred for milk, British Alpines have averaged around 4.09 kilograms of milk daily at about 3.77 percent fat in UK measurements from the mid-2000s; the breed remains common in Australia, with an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 head in 2022, but is endangered in Britain, where only 464 animals were reported in 2023. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/