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Dera Din Panah
Capra hircus
A breed of Goat, from Pakistan
Goat breed of Pakistan.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
For Goat generally
No keeping details are recorded for this breed yet, so these are the species’.
Kept for
- Dairy
- Meat
- Fibre
- Mature weight
- 35–120 kg
- Lifespan
- 10–15 years
- Gestation
- 150 days
- Temperament
- Curious, intelligent and sociable; skilled escape artists
- Forage
- Browsers that prefer shrubs, hedges and weeds to grass, with good hay and goat minerals. Milking does need extra feed.
- Housing
- Dry, draught-free shelter, since goats dislike rain. Fencing must be very secure, as they climb, jump and squeeze through gaps.
- Good to know
- Goats need the company of other goats. Hooves need trimming every few weeks to months, depending on the ground. Many garden shrubs are poisonous to goats, so check what they can reach over and through fences.
The record
Breed facts
Status
- FAO risk status
- Not at riskWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
Photos, videos and notes
From keepers
Full detailsevery field on the record, to copy
- Name
- Dera Din Panah
- Slug
- dera-din-panah
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Capra
- Species
- hircus
- Cultivar
- Dera Din Panah
- Wikidata QID
- Q10265315
- Origin country
- Pakistan
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 37