Breed: Erzgebirgsziege
Species: Goat
Colour: fawn brown with an eel back and black lower legs
Country: Germany
Description: middlesized, fawn brown with an eel back and black lower legs. Middlelong, slender neck. Deep chests, long back and broad loin. Good developed udder. Fine Footing. Both sexes can be horned or polled. Distribution: Saxonxy and BrandenburgMost of the population was merged in the population of the German Improved Fawn. At the moment there is no attempt to regard this type specially in the breeding of of the German Improved Fawn. There are still individual animals of those old line in the herdbook. It would be desirable if some breeders in Saxony would take care of the breed, before it is lost. In 2002 there were ca. 322 animals left.
History: The Erzgebirgsziege was mainly hold in the Saxon-Bohemian mountain range Erzgebirge. At the end of the last century fawn brown animals from Switzerland were crossed in. Over the course of the history of the German Democratic Republic the Erzgebirgsziege developed in a different type of goat which could be distinguished from the western German Improved Fawn. After the Fall of the Wall there was an exchange of breeding animals with Bavaria and Switzerland. For this reason the old typ was strongly replaced in the herdbook.
Specials: Delicate, slender milking goat (distinguishable from the heavier, meatier Franken type of the German Improved Fawn Stands in type of a more delicate, slender milking goat which can be distinguished from the heavier, meatier Franken type.
Uses: Milk, Meat
Performance: milk yield: 700-900 l/ year on average.