Somali goat
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The Somali is a Somali breed or group of breeds of domestic goat.[6][7][8] It is distributed in Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and north-eastern Kenya. It is used primarily for the production of meat. The animals have short ears and hair, usually white but sometimes with spots or patches. Both males and females typically have horns. The goats are drought tolerant and, when milked, can each yield one to three kilograms of milk daily, even when access to water is limited.[9]: 84
The Somali is reported to DAD-IS by three countries: Kenya, Somalia and Yemen;[10] no population data is reported by any of the three, so the conservation status of the breed is unknown.[10]
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- ↑ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to: The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
- ↑ Breed Data Sheet: Somali / Somalia (Goat). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed July 2026.
- ↑ Valerie Porter, Ian Lauder Mason (2020). Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties (sixth edition). Wallingford; Boston: CABI. ISBN 9781789241532.
- ↑ Short-eared Somali. Domestic Animal Genetic Resources Information System. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute. Archived 20 July 2019.
- ↑ Long-eared Somali. Domestic Animal Genetic Resources Information System. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute. Archived 20 July 2019.
- ↑ Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
- ↑ Somali Arab. Domestic Animal Genetic Resources Information System. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute. Archived 20 July 2019.
- ↑ [FARM-Africa] (1996). Goat Types of Ethiopia and Eritrea – Physical description and management systems. London: FARM-Africa; Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute. Archived 20 July 2019. ISBN 9291460141.
- ↑ Dawn Chatty (1996). Mobile Pastoralists: Development Planning and Social Change in Oman. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231105491.
- 1 2 Transboundary Breed Summary: Somali. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed July 2026.