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GIRGENTANA GOAT FOR SALE
GIRGENTANA GOAT FOR SALE
Girgentana Goats are from Agrigento (also known as Girgenti),rnSicily. At one point there were more than 30,000 Girgentana Goats in the hillsrnand coastal zone of the province. However, today the registered population isrnunder 500 goats.
The exact origins of the Girgentana goat breed is unknown. It has been suggested that they are in central South Asia, specifically Kashmir, northern Afghanistan and Balochistan. Johann Wolfgang Amschler identified it with Capra prisca and the Ram in a Thicket statues excavated at Ur by Leonard Woolley in 1927–28.
The hypothesis of Leopold Adametz that it is descended, at least in part, from the markhor, Capra falconeri, a species of Central Asian goat-antelope, appears to be generally accepted by zoologists. The animals could have been introduced to Sicily by Greek colonists about 700 BC, or in the eighth
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