Yuncheng Green Mountain Goat

Yuncheng Green Mountain Goat

　　Yuncheng Green Mountain Goat is a specialty of Yuncheng County, Heze City, Shandong Province. Yuncheng is recognized as the national base county for Green Mountain Goats. The goat is a treasure in its entirety — its meat is tender and nutritious, its hide is tough, and its fur is dense, fine, and evenly distributed with a smooth and glossy surface.

　　The Green Mountain Goat is one of China’s famous lamb skin breeds, originating from the southwestern part of Shandong. Yuncheng County is both a concentrated production area for the goats and a designated production base for lambskin and hides by the Ministry of Commerce.

　　The Green Mountain Goat is one of the world’s three most famous fur breeds, named for its bluish tint on the hair, hooves, horns, and mouth. It is highly adaptable, tolerant of coarse feed, and boasts strong reproductive capabilities, rapid growth, early maturity, and frequent breeding — typically giving birth to 2–3 litters per year, with 2–6 kids per litter. The goat is valuable in every part: its meat is tender and nutritious, its hide is tough, and its fur is dense, fine, and evenly distributed with a smooth and glossy surface, making it premium material for fur, leather, and textiles. The bluish lambskin is a precious material for making fur garments. Its intestines are an indispensable suture material in medicine, its liver is an effective remedy for night blindness, and its horns and hooves can be used to make glue.