title: Nigora
text: # Nigora
  
  The Nigora is an American breed of small or medium-sized dual-purpose goat, raised both for its milk and for its fiber. It is the result of cross-breeding Nigerian Dwarf bucks with does of mohair breeds such as the $Angora.^{:22}^{:325}$
  
  ## History
  
  The Nigora is of recent creation: breeding started in 1994. A breed association, the American Nigora Goat Breeders Association, was formed in $2007.^{:22}$ Another association, the Nigora Goat Breeders Society, was active in 2014.
  
  ## Fiber
  
  As with the Pygora breed, the fiber is classified into three types, A, B and C, depending on the length and type of the $fibers.^{:358}$ Type A is Angora-type mohair, long and lustrous; type B is "cashgora", which combines mohair with cashmere-type undercoat and is of medium length; type C is like cashmere and is $shorter.^{:49}$
  
  