Sheep Goat Husbandry
Breeding Management of Goats
Breeding Seasons Dairy goats are usually seasonal breeders. Most breeding occurs in late summer through >>>
Animal Husbandry
Five Point Check- a decision making tool during deworming of Small Ruminants
Internal parasites cause many ill affects among the ruminants and domestic animals. They cause severe economic losses to the animal husbandry in a numerous ways. >>>
Sheep Goat Husbandry
A review on innovative concepts in feeding management of goats: current challenges and future perspectives
The goats act as a potential tool for poverty reduction in India. Economic losses of goats due to mortality and morbidity at the micro and macro levels are critical. The goat keepers’ >>>
Animal Husbandry
Selection and management of breeding stock (Buck, doe)
The goat is a multi-functional animal that is crucial to the country’s landless, tiny, and marginal farmers’ economy and nutrition. Goat farming is a popular rural occupation that employs a large pe >>>
Sheep Goat Husbandry
Goat: A Poor Man’s Cow
Milk has always been heralded as “a complete food”. It contains all the important nutrients required by human body and its consumption keeps on increasing every year. According to statistical report >>>
Sheep Goat Husbandry
Polioencephalomalacia in Goats
Goat provide multiple benefits to farmers in developing countries. Goat meat and milk are consumed locally among the poor in developing countries. Goat is considered poor man’s cow >>>
Sheep Goat Husbandry
Contribution of small ruminants in people’s livelihood under different systems of management
Livestock sector is one of the important sources of income and employment to rural people. Both livestock and agriculture are very much dependent on each other >>>
Animal Husbandry
Purgi: An Unrecognized Sheep Breed of Kargil
In Ladakh region of India, sheep and goat rearing is the core activity of rural masses and plays a vital role in socio- economic upliftment of weaker sections of the society. Sheep play an important >>>
Animal Husbandry
Nutritional and health benefits of Goat Milk
Goat milk plays an important role in the nutrition and socioeconomic wellbeing of developing and underdeveloped countries, where it provides basic nutrition and subsistence to the rural people >>>
Animal Diseases
Pregnancy Toxemia in Doe: A Case Report
A doe weighing 45 kg during last trimester of pregnancy was presented at Veterinary Hospital Chaumuha,Mathura with primary complaint of inappetance and recumbency for a week. >>>
Animal Husbandry News
Tale of triumph from the hills: Himachal’s Nandu Ram wins NBAGR Breed Conservation Award (Gaddi Goat)
Gaddi is a distinct tribe of nomadic pastoralists of Himachal Pradesh involved in rearing sheep and goats of the Gaddi breed. Their flocks are managed totally under an extensive (migratory) >>>
Sheep Goat Husbandry
Importance of goat farming in India
India occupies first position in terms of goat population and milk production. Chevon (goat meat) is most preferred and widely consumed meat in the country. Since ancient times goat >>>
Sheep Goat Husbandry
Breed Up-gradation of Non Descript Indian Sheep by Artificial Insemination through Heat Synchronization
The most important limitation of the use of artificial insemination in sheep is in the method of insemination, since it is difficult to achieve an intrauterine insemination because the cervical canal of the ewe is so tortuous. >>>
Animal Husbandry
Contribution of goat farming in doubling the income of farmers
The contribution of goat in total livestock is 27.80%, which is a major share goat in total livestock. Goat is being raised as poor man’s cow due to its importance of providing >>>
