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The unpretentiousness and small size of goats makes these animals attractive for breeding in a subsidiary farm. The main advantage is hypoallergenic milk with excellent nutritional qualities. To improve the species characteristics, breeders have been breeding new breeds for many years. Czech scientists did not stand aside either.
Description
The ancestors of this breed are the French Alpine and Swiss Alpine, plus local goat breeds. Due to this selection, the performance characteristics of local goats have been improved. The Czech goat breed has become an independent species with its own distinctive features.
You can understand the description of the breed from the photo.
Specific characteristics:
- The color of the coat is brown, it can be of different intensity of color from milk-chocolate to brown;
- An admixture of Alpiek gave a black stripe along the spine and black socks;
- The main distinguishing feature of the breed is the presence of black triangles behind the ears;
- The weight of the female is from 50 to 55 kg, the male is 70-80 kg;
- A large udder with two nipples is silky to the touch; when milked, it is shapeless with folds;
- Czech goats have good intellectual abilities: they respond to their nickname, they can even carry out some of the owner's commands.
Productivity of the Czech breed
The Czech breed has a predominantly dairy value. The milking period is about 10 months a year. Young goats give about a ton of milk per year, older animals, if properly kept, are able to achieve a result of more than 2 tons per year.
You can get from 2 to 4 liters per day. The milk of Czech goats is not too fatty - only 3.5%, protein in it is 3%.
The consistency is more like cream. The advantage of this milk over cow's milk is in its hypoallergenic qualities, it is much better absorbed. In baby food, these properties are of undeniable value.
Maintenance and care
Keeping Czech goats is not as difficult as it might seem. The main thing is to provide normal living and feeding conditions.
Premises
The size of the room should be such that about 4 m2 is allocated per individual. A prerequisite for keeping ungulates is a warm floor. To do this, you can arrange a bed of straw or raised plank decks. The room temperature in the cold season should be at least +5 degrees. Czech goats are very clean, therefore it is important to ensure the cleanliness of the room where they are kept.
In addition, the color of the coat attracts blood-sucking insects to goats in hot weather.
Food
Czech goats do not differ in whimsical nutrition. The basis of their diet is: in summer - grass and undergrowth of trees and shrubs, and in winter - hay. For a variety of food in the winter, you can resort to feed, vegetables, vegetable food waste. The salt can be added a little to the water or given separately. The most natural food for these animals is coarse food, such as hay, so there should always be plenty of it.
Newborn kids feed on mother's milk.Feeding is continued until the age of one month, then transferred to regular feed, combining it with milk from a bottle or a mixture. To strengthen the weakest young animals, raw eggs are given twice a week. However, you need to be sure of the quality of these eggs.
Breeding of the Czech breed
It is not at all necessary to breed a purebred breed. One breeding Czech goat is able to improve the quality of the offspring of outbred female friends. However, the taste of Czech milk can only be produced from purebred animals. In addition, purebred Czech goats can bring not only milk, but also a good income from the sale of offspring.
Crossing Czech goats with another breed
For productivity, thoroughbred goats are often crossed with simple goats. Breeders, as creative people, sometimes interbreed representatives of different species. This is exactly what the owners of the two breeds from Khakassia did. They mixed the Czech and Zaanen goat breeds. This happened out of necessity, since there was no pair of the Czech goat from “their own”. The result pleased the owners: the goats are resistant to cool climates and are very productive. In addition, they bring strong offspring in the form of triplets each lamb. The color of the short dense coat is creamy.
You can admire the graceful body and noble color of the Czech breed by watching the following video:
