CONTRIBUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON LITTER TRAITS OF MALABARI GOATS
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- K. C. Raghavan; K. Anilkumar; P. Nandakumar
- Source
- Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Vol 30, Iss 1, Pp 27-31 (1999)
- Subject
- Animal biochemistry
QP501-801
Science (General)
Q1-390
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0971-0701
2582-0605
Malabari breed of goats possesses tremendous scope for development of meat and duel purpose strains suited to the humid tropics. Pro9lificacy being the most important economic trait, in the development of such strains of goats an attempt was made to evaluate the effect of parity, day length and season of date of kidding and date of breeding on litter size at birth and litter weight at birth of Malabari goats in its home tract. Least squares analysis revealed that the effect of parity on litter size at birth and litter weight to be highly significant. (P