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A Study on Prevailing management Practices, Nutritional status and Parasitic Load in The Goat Flocks of Ahir Community of South Gujarat

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Title A Study on Prevailing management Practices, Nutritional status and Parasitic Load in The Goat Flocks of Ahir Community of South Gujarat
 
Creator Sorathiya, L.M.
 
Contributor Fulsoundar, A.B.
 
Subject livestock, biological phenomena, seasons, biological interaction, summer, proteins, purification, animal population, land resources, area
 
Description A total 300 respondents from Navsari and Valsad districts were selected to
study the prevailing goat rearing practices of Ahirs with constraints faced by
multistage sampling technique. The parasitic prevalence, body condition scoring and
nutritional status were monitored in selected 360 goats during whole year. The blood
and fecal sample collection and BCS, FAMACHA and BW appraisal was carried out
on them. The tabulated data were analyzed by various suitable techniques in IBM®
SPSS® Statistics Version 20.0.
The data pertaining to prevailing practices and constraints were collected from
Ahirs goat keepers by personal interview method. The analysis revealed that the
majority of goat keepers (67.67%) were in middle age category (p< 0.01), studied
upto primary standard (39.33%) and were living in small families (68.33%). The
mean land holding (Ha.) was 0.71±0.05, 0.65±0.04 and 0.68±0.03 in Navsari district,
Valsad district and pooled, respectively. The goat rearing was the main occupation of
the 64% respondents. The average flock size was 47.13±1.79. Total 68% of
respondents were also possessed large animals. As far as goat housing facility is
concerned, majority of them (85.30%) have possessed either pacca or kachha shed
with roof. Majority (86.72%) of respondents was using the bamboo made slated floor.
They have mostly selected excellent sites (55.47%), kept good floor height (95.70%), and
provided medium roof height (58.59%) in their goat houses. It reflects that the Ahirs
were having excellent knowledge to construct goat house as well as they are very
professional to make house clean all the time. The grazing duration and travelling
required were depending on seasons. The gochar land, protect forest and road/ canal
bank were mostly available for grazing of goats to 35%, 33% and 32% respondents,
respectively. Less numbers of goat keepers were hiring the labours to graze the goats
due to higher wages. They were mostly combining two flocks and mostly herded by
two persons for grazing purpose. The 56.66 and 70.67% respondents were feeding the
mostly grounded wheat or jowar regularly to kids and adult does, respectively. Cent
percent respondents were feeding tree leaves only them which were not taken for
grazing. The natural flock method of breeding was employed by majority of respondents.
The February- April was mostly preferred time to mate the goats for majority (71.70%) of
respondents. Many respondents (45.70%) were used to tie string around sheath and
testicles of bucks to prevent unwanted mating. Majority of them (60%) were not offering
concentrate to bucks during breeding season. Most of them were not castrating their
unselected bucks. Majority of them had mated their does by any bucks from combined
flocks. They were mostly selecting the bucks by pedigree + individual selection method.
The less numbers of respondents were either deworming or vaccinating their goats.
Further, the sick goats were mostly treated by non qualified quacks. They were following
good method to destroy carcass and placenta. Clipping of hairs in goats were
practiced by all respondents in summer. Majority of them (69.33%) were keeping
their kids in separate shed (wada). Most of the Ahir goat keepers were milking their
lactating goats twice in a day. Majority (72%) of respondents were selling their kids at
6-9 months of age at home on the spot payment basis without weighing them. It was
revealed that high feed cost, illness and mortality, high rainfall, costly veterinary
services and lack of credit facility were the most important constraints faced by the
respondents of both districts.
The nutritional and parasitic status of goats in study area was monitored in
sampled goats in three seasons of whole year. The experimental goats were monitored
for BCS, FAMACHA, BW, PCV and several blood biochemical parameters. The
fecal samples of the same were evaluated for presence of parasitic eggs and coccidial
ova.
The BCS was found significantly (p
 
Date 2016-04-28T11:41:06Z
2016-04-28T11:41:06Z
2015
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/65626
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher NAU