Caprine breeding

The caprine breeding is the whole of the operations aiming at reproducing animals of the species Capra aegagrus hircus , in other words goats, with the profit of the human activity.

History

It is a traditionally extensive breeding which uses the territories where bovine and ovine are not profitable. It intensified only recently (after the second world war) with the birth of milk collection to the profit of private or co-operative dairies.
C' is a breeding which has its cradle in the Mediterranean basin and which remains marginal as soon as one moves away from there. The process of breeding led to the Domestication and the emergence of specialized races.

Breeding

Production

The production aims has to provide:
  • Milk : it is very mainly transformed into cheese, but its consumption in expenses remains important in the west Asia or in North Africa. In Europe, there exists a small market in milk UHT. The list of the Fromages to the goat's milk makes it possible to measure the diversity of the productions.
  • Meat : it is traditionally important in the west Asia or in North Africa. In Occident, it became marginal. The meat of CABRI is appraisal with Easter in the areas of production of goat's milk cheese, and a small meat tradition of smoked adult goat's milk cheese persists in the alpine massive . (Race kiko in New Zealand)
  • Leather : He is worked and used in the areas of the south and the east of the Mediterranean basin.
  • Hair : It is drawn from two races selected on the softness of their hair: Ankara come from Turkey and Cashmere come from the Cashmere. The fabrics which in is resulting bears the name of Mohair

Qualities of the animal

The goat is a very effective animal:
  • it adapts to all the Topographie S thanks to its lightness and its sure foot.
  • it resists cold of the nights of mountain pasture and with the heat of the garrigues of Provence in summer.
  • it is transformer effective milk grass. A cow Prim' Holstein of 700 kg produced around 8600 liters per annum, is 12,3 liters per kg. A goat Alpine of 60 kg produces 850 liters, that is to say 14,1 liters per kg.
  • it absorbs all kinds of plants and thus has a role of breaker and use of the poor grounds. These qualities make of it an animal recommended in the Pays in the process of development, on the condition of controlling its population, if not, there is risk of turning into a desert per intensive pasture.

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • '' the Goat '': the review of the professionals of the caprine breeding
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