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Pygmy Goat
The American Pygmy is an American breed of achondroplastic goat. It is small, compact and stockily built. Like the Nigerian Dwarf, it derives from the West African Dwarf group of breeds of West Africa.[3]: 355 [4]: 35  Between 1930 and 1960, animals of this type were imported to the United States for use either as zoo animals or for research; some were later kept and bred as companion animals and established as a breed in 1975.[3]: 355 [5]: 40  It may also be known as the Pygmy or African Pygmy. It is quite different and separate from the British Pygmy breed.
Pygmy History
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Between about 1930 and 1960 a variety of small goats of the West African Dwarf group of breeds of West Africa were imported from zoos in Germany to the United States, to be exhibited in zoos or used as research animals.[3]: 355 [5]: 40  Some came into the hands of private breeders who kept and bred them as companion animals.[3]: 355  By the 1970s, two distinct types had developed: one broad, compact and solid like the original African stock, the other more delicate, much like a dairy goat in miniature.[5]: 39  The latter became the Nigerian Dwarf, while the former became the American Pygmy, for which a breed society was established in 1975, and a herd book started in the same year.[3]: 355 [5]: 39 
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In 2007 the conservation status of the American Pygmy was listed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as "endangered".[1]: 142  In 2019 its transboundary risk level was listed in the DAD-IS breed database as "at risk";[2] it was not on the heritage breed watchlist of the Livestock Conservancy.[6]
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Two modern breeds derive in part from the American Pygmy: the Kinder was created by cross-breeding with the Nubian, the Pygora from crossing with Angora stock.[3]: 355 [5]: 40 
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