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Messinese goat
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Messinese goat

Place of Origin Italy
Origin Messinese Goats are a dairy goat from the Monti Nebrodi and the Monti Peloritani area in the province of Messina, in the Mediterranean island of Sicily, in southern Italy. They are also found in the provinces of Catania, Enna, and Palermo. The breed was officially recognized and a herd-book established in 2001. It was previously known either as the Capra dei Nebrodi or in general as the Siciliana Comune.
Purpose Milk
Characteristics Height at the withers:
- Male: 72 cm (28 in)
- Female: 67 cm (26 in)
Weight:
- Male: 55 kg (120 ib)
- Female: 38 kg (85 lb)

The colour of the coat is very different (plain, pied or streaked, black, white, brown or red with various shades); long hair. It is mainly a dairy breed, milk is used for typical cheese.
Other Considerations The Messinese is one of the forty-three autochthonous Italian goat breeds of limited distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep and goat breeders. At the end of 2013 the registered population was variously reported as 9814 and as 10,409, the total population is estimated at 42,000.

Messines milk is used mostly to make caprino (an Italian cheese traditionally made from whole or skim goat's milk) and mixed-milk cheeses.
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