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- Meat and milk
- Variety of colors
- May be two toned
- May have spots or patches of color and stripes on the face
- Males have long beard and roach down back
- Large and erect ears
- Milk 6500 lbs/year
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Definition
- Long hair
- Hair used for fabric
- Open face below eyes
- Long droopy ears
- Horned (both sexes)
- Smaller
- Doe 70 – 110 lbs
- Buck 180 – 225 lbs
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Definition
- Little to no ears
- Short fine hair of any color
- Doe 130 lbs
- 4500 lbs/yr milk
- 4% butterfat
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Term
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Definition
- Roman nose and long floppy ears
- Variety of coat colors
- Red, black, tan most common
- May be spotted
- Milk
- Doe 135 lbs
- Buck >170 lbs
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Term
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Definition
- Small
- Dark red/brown base with black points and 2 black stripes on face
- Erect ears
- Doe 120 lbs
- Buck 150 lbs
- Poor milk producer
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Term
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Definition
- Small
- Mainly kept as pets
- Full coats
- Males have long beards
- Can be any color
- Light colored must have lighter head, darker lower legs and dorsal stripe
- Usually horned
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Term
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Definition
- White with pink mucous membranes or fawn (sable)
- Large
- Horned – usually dehorned
- Erect ears
- Buck 165 lbs
- Doe 135 lbs
- Milk
- 5500 lbs/yr
- 3.5% butterfat
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Term
Toggenburg
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Definition
- Light fawn to dark chocolate with white points
- White stripes on face and erect ears
- Triangle of white on either side of tail
- Milk
- 5500 lbs/yr
- 3.7% butterfat
- Buck 150 lbs
- Doe 120 lbs
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