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id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Swiss breed of goat</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biota"><caption class="infobox-title breed">Saanen</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Saanenziege.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a short-haired white nanny goat on grass" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Saanenziege.jpg/220px-Saanenziege.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Saanenziege.jpg/330px-Saanenziege.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Saanenziege.jpg 2x" data-file-width="332" data-file-height="257" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nanny_goat" class="extiw" title="wikt:nanny goat">Nanny</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Engstligenalp" title="Engstligenalp">Engstligenalp</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Conservation status</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/FAO" class="mw-redirect" title="FAO">FAO</a> (2007): no concern<sup id="cite_ref-barb_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-barb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i lang="de"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049405">.mw-parser-output .noitalic{font-style:normal}</style><span class="noitalic">Saanenziege</span></i></li><li><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049405"><span class="noitalic">Chèvre de Gessenay</span></i></li><li><a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>: <i lang="it"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049405"><span class="noitalic">Capra di Saanen</span></i></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country of origin</th><td class="infobox-data">Switzerland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Distribution</th><td class="infobox-data">worldwide</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Standard</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150203235501/http://szzv.caprovis.ch/files/Rassenstandard_2014_DE_DEFINITIV_130214.pdf">SZZV (German)</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://szzv.caprovis.ch/files/Rassenstandard_2014_FRANZ_DEFINITIV_130214.pdf">SZZV (French)</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://szzv.caprovis.ch/files/Rassen/Rassenstandard_2014_ITA_DEFINITIV_130214.pdf">SZZV (Italian)</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Use</th><td class="infobox-data">milk</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#D3D3A4;">Traits</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Weight</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Male: <div style="float: right;">minimum 85 kg<sup id="cite_ref-szzv_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szzv-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></li><li><div style="clear:both;">Female: <div style="float: right;">minimum 60 kg<sup id="cite_ref-szzv_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szzv-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Height</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Male: <div style="float: right;">90 cm<sup id="cite_ref-szzv_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szzv-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></li><li><div style="clear:both;">Female: <div style="float: right;">80 cm<sup id="cite_ref-szzv_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szzv-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Skin colour</th><td class="infobox-data">white</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coat</th><td class="infobox-data">white</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Horn status</th><td class="infobox-data">horned or <a href="/wiki/Polled_livestock" title="Polled livestock">hornless</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#D3D3A4;">Notes</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">short-haired</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="background-color:#D3D3A4;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="vernacular"><a href="/wiki/Goat" title="Goat">Goat</a></span></li><li><i><span class="trinominal">Capra aegagrus hircus</span></i></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herd_of_goats_Saanen.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Herd_of_goats_Saanen.JPG/220px-Herd_of_goats_Saanen.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Herd_of_goats_Saanen.JPG/330px-Herd_of_goats_Saanen.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Herd_of_goats_Saanen.JPG/440px-Herd_of_goats_Saanen.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1598" data-file-height="899" /></a><figcaption>Flock in a commercial operation in <a href="/wiki/Sernur" title="Sernur">Sernur</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Mari_El_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Mari El Republic">Mari El Republic</a> of the Russian Federation, showing both horned and hornless animals</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Saanen</b><sup id="cite_ref-a_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-a-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a <a href="/wiki/List_of_Swiss_goat_breeds" title="List of Swiss goat breeds">Swiss breed</a> of <a href="/wiki/Domestic_goat" class="mw-redirect" title="Domestic goat">domestic goat</a>. It takes its name from the <a href="/wiki/Saane" class="mw-redirect" title="Saane">Saanental</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Bernese_Oberland" title="Bernese Oberland">Bernese Oberland</a>, in the southern part of the <a href="/wiki/Canton_of_Bern" title="Canton of Bern">Canton of Bern</a>, in western Switzerland. It is a highly productive dairy goat and is distributed in more than eighty countries worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-dad_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dad-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saanen_goat&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Saanen originates in the historic region of <a href="/wiki/Saanen" title="Saanen">Saanen</a> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049405"><span class="noitalic">Comté de Gessenay</span></i>) and in the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Simmental" title="Simmental">Simmental</a>, both in the <a href="/wiki/Bernese_Oberland" title="Bernese Oberland">Bernese Oberland</a>, in the southern part of the <a href="/wiki/Canton_of_Bern" title="Canton of Bern">Canton of Bern</a>, in western Switzerland.<sup id="cite_ref-dad2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dad2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is reported from more than eighty countries. The total world population is reported to be over 900,000 head.<sup id="cite_ref-dad_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dad-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of these, some 14,000 are in Switzerland.<sup id="cite_ref-cabi_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cabi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 404">: 404 </span></sup> </p><p>It has since the nineteenth century been exported to many countries of the world, and has given rise to many local sub-breeds, often through <a href="/wiki/Cross-breeding" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross-breeding">cross-breeding</a> with local goats. Among these local variants are the Banat White in Romania, the British Saanen, the French Saanen, the Israeli Saanen, the Russian White, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wei%C3%9Fe_Deutsche_Edelziege&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Weiße Deutsche Edelziege (page does not exist)">Weiße Deutsche Edelziege</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fe_Deutsche_Edelziege" class="extiw" title="de:Weiße Deutsche Edelziege">de</a>]</span> in Germany, and the Yugoslav Saanen.<sup id="cite_ref-cabi_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cabi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 404">: 404 </span></sup> </p><p>A black variant, the <a href="/wiki/Sable_Saanen" class="mw-redirect" title="Sable Saanen">Sable Saanen</a>, was recognised as a breed in New Zealand in the 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-cabi_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cabi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 398">: 398 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saanen_goat&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Saanen is the largest breed of Swiss goat:<sup id="cite_ref-cabi_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cabi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 404">: 404 </span></sup> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/billy_goat" class="extiw" title="wikt:billy goat">billies</a> stand about 90 cm (35 in) at the <a href="/wiki/Withers" title="Withers">withers</a> and weigh a minimum of 85 kg (190 lb).<sup id="cite_ref-szzv_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szzv-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has white skin and a short white coat; some small pigmented areas may be tolerated.<sup id="cite_ref-szzv_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szzv-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It may be horned or <a href="/wiki/Polled_livestock" title="Polled livestock">hornless</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wattle_(anatomy)" title="Wattle (anatomy)">tassels</a> may be present. The profile may be straight or somewhat concave; the ears are erect and point upwards and forwards.<sup id="cite_ref-cabi_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cabi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 404">: 404 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use_and_management">Use and management</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saanen_goat&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Use and management"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Saanen is the most productive milk goat of Switzerland,<sup id="cite_ref-cabi_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cabi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 404">: 404 </span></sup> which has the most productive milking goats in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-cabi_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cabi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 345">: 345 </span></sup> Average milk yield is <span class="nowrap">838 kg</span> in a <a href="/wiki/Lactation" title="Lactation">lactation</a> of <span class="nowrap">264 days</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-cabi_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cabi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 404">: 404 </span></sup> The milk should have a minimum of 3.2% <a href="/wiki/Butterfat" title="Butterfat">fat</a> and 2.7% <a href="/wiki/Protein" title="Protein">protein</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-szzv_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szzv-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is not well suited to <a href="/wiki/Extensive_farming" title="Extensive farming">extensive</a> management, and is usually raised <a href="/wiki/Intensive_farming" title="Intensive farming">intensively</a>. Being pale-skinned, it does not tolerate strong sun.<sup id="cite_ref-cabi_6-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cabi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 404">: 404 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saanen_goat&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/ɑː/: 'a' in 'father'">ɑː</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-lena_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lena-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 337">: 337 </span></sup> <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <span lang="de" style="font-style: normal;">Saanenziege</span>, <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <span lang="fr" style="font-style: normal;">Chèvre de Gessenay</span>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saanen_goat&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 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