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Saanen
a short-haired white nanny goat on grass
Nanny on the Engstligenalp
Conservation statusFAO (2007): no concern[1]
Other names
  • German: Saanenziege
  • French: Chèvre de Gessenay
  • Italian: Capra di Saanen
Country of originSwitzerland
Distributionworldwide
Standard
  • SZZV (German)
  • SZZV (French)
  • SZZV (Italian)
Usemilk
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    minimum 85 kg[2]
  • Female:
    minimum 60 kg[2]
Height
  • Male:
    90 cm[2]
  • Female:
    80 cm[2]
Skin colourwhite
Wool colourwhite
Horn statushorned or hornless
Notes
short-haired
  • Goat
  • Capra hircus
Flock in a commercial operation in Sernur, in the Mari El Republic of the Russian Federation, showing both horned and hornless animals

The Saanen[a] is a Swiss breed of domestic goat. It takes its name from the Saanental in the Bernese Oberland, in the southern part of the Canton of Bern, in western Switzerland. It is a highly productive dairy goat and is distributed in more than eighty countries worldwide.[3]

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