Black goat: breeds, photos, interesting facts

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Each farmer selects animals for his farm, focusing on his own reasons, preferences, tastes. If you decide to get a black goat, our article may be useful to you. There are several popular breeds with this color that are of economic value. You can also settle such an animal as a pet.

Black breeds

The most common breed in Russia, whose representatives are painted in dark colors, was bred from woolen and Angora goats. From these animals, not only good milk yields of rather fatty milk are obtained, but also valuable fluff. About 250 grams can be combed from a goat per year, and a black goat will give at least 400 grams of delicate long wool. The strong thin skin of these animals is also valued.

Bengal black breed is more popular abroad. But in the Russian Federation there are many who raise these large black goats and goats. The weight of an adult male can reach 30 kg, females are slightly smaller. These are graceful thin-horned animals that are completely undemanding to conditions.content. You can even settle them in the house (for example, during the cold season).

Looking at a photo of an Anatolian black goat, one can easily mistake it for a ram or some wild animal. It has very massive twisted horns. The birthplace of the Anatolian breed is Turkey.

Interesting Black Goat Facts

With the light hand of Lovecraft, Shub-Niggurath has received considerable distribution in fantastic universes. He appears as a monstrous cloud, a deity (or rather a demon) of perverted fertility. The shape is more like a shapeless mass with tentacles, hooves and mouths, but in the literature it is referred to as the Black Goat, Capricorn, Goat. The idea was picked up by other writers, including Robert Zelazny and Stephen King.

The Black Goat is worshiped by the people of Qohor in George Martin's universe of the Seven Kingdoms. The Qohor people tried to please the deity by offering him frequent sacrifices. The priests of Norvos considered him a vile, dark demon, and the Faceless of Braavos considered him one of the incarnations of the Many-Faced God.

In colloquial speech, the phrase "Black Goat" can be heard from a beer connoisseur. So many call the dark variety of the drink Velkopopovický Kozel.

Often the image of a bearded animal with black hair and horns is described in dream books. Most of them interpret dreams with this character in a neutral way, but advise the dreamer to be on the alert.