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Angora goats

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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, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16596/angora-goats (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allan Gillingham, published 1 March 2009.