Capra Grigia

Capra Grigia
Billy-goat
Conservation statusFAO (2007): critical-maintained:112
Other names
  • French: Chèvre grise des montagnes
  • German: Graue Bergziege
  • Cavra del Sass
Country of originSwitzerland
Distribution
StandardCapra Grigia Schweiz
Use
  • meat
  • milk
  • vegetation management
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    72 kg
  • Female:
    50 kg
Height
  • Male:
    80 cm
  • Female:
    75 cm
Coatgrey, lower legs black
Face colourgrey with paler muzzle
Horn statushorned in both sexes
  • Goat
  • Capra aegagrus hircus

The Capra Grigia, French: Chèvre grise des montagnes, German: Graue Bergziege, is a rare and endangered Swiss breed of domestic goat. It originates in the valleys of the cantons of the Grisons or Graubünden in the eastern part of the country, and of Ticino or Tessin in the south. It is possibly related to the grey type of the Passeirer Gebirgsziege from the Autonomous Province of Bolzano in north-eastern Italy.