Heifer International is an organization that has dedicated itself to ending world hunger. One way it's found to do that is by providing goats to families as a gift for a better life. Since 1944, Heifer International has given resources to millions of impoverished families around the world so that they could learn to become self-reliant. Recipients then promise to pass on the gift by donating the offspring of their animals to other needy families.

While Heifer supplies all kinds of animals, its annual "Kids to Kids" campaign focuses specifically on giving children a gift of goats. This animal can easily be cared for by youth because goats are playful and respond well to lots of love. Goats have everything necessary for a child to grow up healthy. They provide protein-packed milk to build healthy bones, rich manure to fertilize gardens and increase crop yields, and fine wool to make warm clothes. Does often have two to three kids a year and as one's herd multiplies, families are able to sell surplus animals, milk, manure and crops to neighboring villages. Investing in a goat and in agricultural training for an inpoverished family costs less than what a privileged family spends on dinner and a movie. But to people in need, the gift of a goat can make all the difference in the world.

Pets and Companion Goats

Australian Miniature Goat
Nigerian Dwarf
Pygmy Goats
Fainting Goats

Fiber Goat Breeds

Altai Mountain Goat
Anatolian Black Goat
Angora goat
Australian Cashmere Goat
Cashmere goat
Changthangi
Chengde Polled
Chigu Goat
Don Goat
Hexi Cashmere
Huaitoutala
Hyrcus
Jining Grey
Kaghani
Nigora Goat
Pygora Goats
Uzbek Black
Xinjiang Goat
Zalawadi
Zhiwulin Black
Zhongwei Goat

Dairy Goat Breeds

British Alpine
Brown Shorthair Goat
Canary Island Goat
Carpathian
Chamois Colored
Charnequeira
Chengdu Brown
Corsican Goat
Daera Din Panah
Damani
Damascus goat
Danish Landrace Goat
Don Goat
Dutch Landrace
Dutch Toggenburg
Erzgebirge Goat
Finnish Landrace Goat
Garganica
Girgentana
Golden Guernsey
Grisons Striped
Hailun Goat
Hasi Goat
Hongtong Goat
Hungarian Improved
Irish Goat
Jamnapari goat
Jonica
Kamori
Kinder
Loashan
Majorera
Maltese
Messinese Goat
Mini Oberhasli
Murcia-Granada
Murciana goat
Nigerian Dwarf
Norwegian
Oberhasli
Orobica
Peacock Goat
Poitou Goat
Pyrenean Goat
Red Mediterranean
Russian White
Saanen goat
Sable Saanen
Sarda
Swedish Landrace
Tauernsheck
Thuringian Goat
Toggenburg
Valais Blackneck
Verata
White Shorthaired
Xinjiang Goat

Goatskin Goat Breeds

Alpine
American Lamancha goat
Anatolian Black Goat
Anglo-Nubian
Appenzell Goat
Argentata of Etna
Beetal
Belgian Fawn
Benadir Goat
Bhuj goat
Bionda dell'Adamello
Booted Goat
Black Bengal
Don Goat
Garganica
Jining Grey
Qinshan Goat
Sahelian Goat
Zhongwei Goat