Goat cattle is one of the goat subspecies that are kept or domesticated from wild goats of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. Goats are members of the Bovidae family and are brothers with sheep because they belong to the sub-family of Caprinae. There are more than 300 different types of goats. Goats are one of the longest-growing species, for milk, meat, feathers and skin all over the world. In 2011, the live goat population worldwide reached 924 million according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
An adult male goat.
Goats are a medium-sized ruminant animal. The goat livestock Capra aegagrus hircus is a subspecies of wild goats that are naturally dispersed in southwest Asia's "fertile crescent" and Turkey and Europe. Both male and female wild goats have a pair of horns, but goat horns larger males. Generally, goats have beard, convex forehead, tail slightly upward, and mostly straight and coarse hair. The length of the body of a wild goat, excluding the tail, is 1.3 meters - 1.4 meters, while the head is 12 centimeters - 15 centimeters. The female weights 50 kilograms - 55 kilograms, while the males can reach 120 kilograms. Wild goats are spread from Spain to the east to India, and from India to the north to Mongolia and Siberia. Her favorite habitat is the rocky terrain.