Story: Goats and goat farming

Angora goats

Angora goats

Angora goats typically have long, shaggy ringlet coats which may also grow over the front of the head. Most angoras are farmed on New Zealand’s drier east coast.

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Allan Gillingham, 'Goats and goat farming - Farming for fibre', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/16596/angora-goats (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Allan Gillingham, published 24 Nov 2008