Mongolian goats

Mongolian goats are easy to keep, well adapted to diverse environmental conditions and relatively prolific. Because of their pointed muzzle and thin and mobile lips, they are able to pluck out sparse and short grass on hill slopes among stones, and to feed on affermath. On poor pasture with thin grass stand, where cattle, horses and even sheep remain underfed, goats are able to find enough feed and maintain productivity .
The most famous product of Mongolian goats is cashmere, whose lightness, softness, relative strength, low heat conductivity and uniformity make it one of the most valuable wool fibres .
Native Mongolian goats are very important for the national economy, because, together with the much valued wool fibre (cashmere) they also produce such industrical products as meat and milk, as well as goat skin.
Mongolian goats have a good fattening ability on pasture area. In autumn, mature bucks weigh 55-58 kg, mature females 37-41kg, 2.5 year old bucks 35-38 kg, 1.5 year old females 29-31 kg . The goats are of medium size; They have strong constitution, good compact conformation, well developed skeleton. 90% of goats are horned. The predominant colour is blue,red, black and white.
The coat of local goats has a mixed composition. There is a clear distinction between long straight lustrous guard hairs (15-17 cm) and short (4-5 cm) soft undercoat (cashmere wool) . Guard hair grows evenly over the whole year. Wool undercoat grows during autumn and winter. Its fineness is 13-14 µm. When the warm days are back again, the undercoat gets cotted and is shed (combed).
` Average undercoat yields from goat flocks are : yearlings 200-240 g; 2 year olds and older 240-380 g . The lactation period lasts 7 months, from mid.March to mid.October. Average milk yields are in range of 50-60kg .(20-30kg of marketable milk).
The total dry matter of the milk is 15.44%, total protein 3.87%, fat 5.81%, sugar 4.78% and minerals 0.89%.
At the end of 2000, there were 9.6 million head of goats in Mongolia. About 3.0 thousand tons of cashmere with diameter of 14-16 µm, are prepared in Mongolia annually, as an important export contingent.
Among native Mongolian goats there are several strains like Zalaa jinst,Erchim, Bayandelger, Buural, Ulgiin ulaan, Altain ulaan, etc. Two new breeds were developed: Uuliin Bor and Govi Gurvan saikhan.

  1. Mongol
  2. Unjuul
  3. Zalaa jinst
  4. Erchim
  5. Bayandelger
  6. Buural
  7. Ulgii's red
  8. Gobi gurvan saihan
  9. Uuliin bor
  10. Altai's red

    Goat distribution