Rwanda-Burundi

Chevre Commune, Chevre Locale, Long-hair, Short-hair

Small East African Meat Goat

Relatively small in size (60–67 cm height and 27–35 kg weight); polled animals are rare; horns curve outward and backwards in males, and are lighter and scimitar shaped in females; ears are short to medium in length, pricked forward and upward; toggles are present (14%); most males and some females are bearded; a mane along the whole length of the spine is almost universal in males; coat colour is variable, but whole blacks are common; the coat hair is fine and short but very few males have long hair on the hind legs (Wilson, 1991).

Found in Rwanda, Burundi, Kivu province of Zaire (DR Congo) and in parts of southern Uganda as well as the extreme west of Tanzania; the climate in these east-central African highlands is sub humid with bimodal rainfall of 800 to 1500 mm per annum; the production systems are agro-pastoral and agricultural (Wilson, 1991).

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