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Toggenburg
Capra hircus
A breed of Goat, from Switzerland
Goat breed.
- Family
- Bovidae
Keeping
How it is kept
Kept for
- Dairy
The record
Breed facts
Size
- Weight (female)
- over 60 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Weight (male)
- over 60 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Production
- Milk per year
- 600–800 kgBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Appearance
- Colours
- Brown, greyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Horns
- Horned or polledBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
Status
- FAO risk status
- Not at riskWikidata (source, opens in a new tab)
- UK (Defra) risk status
- At risk in the UKDefra native breeds list, 2026 (source, opens in a new tab)
- Population
- 175 breeding females, 4 breeding males in GermanyBLE TGRDEU (Germany), 2024 (source, opens in a new tab)
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- Name
- Toggenburg
- Slug
- toggenburg
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Family
- Bovidae
- Genus
- Capra
- Species
- hircus
- Cultivar
- Toggenburg
- Wikidata QID
- Q1043718
- Origin country
- Switzerland
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 52