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Morphological characterization of Mahabubnagar goats

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Title Morphological characterization of Mahabubnagar goats
 
Creator EKAMBARAM*, B
GUPTA, B R
PRAKASH, M G
SUDHAKER, K
REDDY, V R
 
Subject Goat; Mahabubnagar goats; Morphological characterization
 
Description In a field study covering 172 farmers spread over 56 villages in 20 mandals, data were collected on the morphological characteristics of 1590 Mahabubnagar goats. The predominant coat colour was bicolour (63.5%) followed by single colour (25%) and multicolour (11.5%) on overall basis. The bicolour coat pattern consisted of mainly black and white (30.88%) followed by brown and white (22.14%) and black and brown (10.38%). Pendulous ears were predominant (91.57%) followed by erect (4.59%) and horizontal ears (3.84%). Majority of the goats (85.97%) had beard while wattles were present in only 34.34% of goats. Straight and curved horns were observed in 96.04% of animals in both sexes. Horn size was mostly medium (63.46%) followed by large size (10.81%) while 10.81% of animals had large horns oriented backward and backward and downward.
 
Publisher Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture
 
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Date 2011-02-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/4030
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol 81, No 2 (2011)
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/4030/1609
 
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