Goat Selection for Breeding
Since domestication man has tried to apply artificial selection to change the animal population for making genetic improvement in performance. The different breeds of domestic animals that exist today are the result of natural and artificial selection. However in India artificial selection in our indigenous breeds does not applied so far and more genetic improvement […]
Goat Farming Equipments
Space Requirements for Goat Farm
Goat Farm Designs considerations and Space Requirements of goats in Indian Conditions From the health point view it is the young, immature animals which are at greater risk of disease & mismanagement. Therefore unit size of young animals should be limited to reasonably low level; it can be very much higher for adults. Maximum number of animals that can […]
Goat farming in india
Goatgyan is the company dedicated to indian goat industry development. No doubt that indian goat industry is still in its infancy, if we look from commercial point of view. But now this industry is becoming organizing. In last decade poultry had become so much developed organised due to the vertical integration. This idea can also […]
Goat Farm Design
Goat Housing–Design Considerations For an animal to maintain homeothermy, the ambient environment and the animal must exchange heat at a rate that permits balancing the metabolic heat production and the energy gains/losses from radiation, convection, conduction and evaporation. Ruminant animals primarily adjust evaporative heat loss to maintain homeothermy during brief exposures to adverse weather, but […]
Health Management of Goats
Health Management of Goats Preventive medication is necessary in large flocks of goats. Vaccination, dipping, deworming regular screening are some of the routine health management practices which must be perform to keep flock healthy and viable. This is the most important part of the organized farm routine activity. There is a well said phrase “Prevention […]
Silage for Goats
When green fodder are in plenty they are conserved as either silage or hay to meet the demand of good quality fodder during lean season. Silage can be defined as a green material produced by controlled anaerobic fermentation of green fodder crop retaining its moisture content. Silage is the green succulent roughage preserved more or […]
Concentrate feed for Goats
Desirable Characterstcis of a Ration 1. The ration should have highly digestible feed ingredients For example, feather meal contains 87% CP But its digestibility is a low as 15-20%.Therefore it is not the amount which is present in the feed is important but how much is digested by the animal i.e DCP and TDN.The […]
Goat Digestive System
Obviously, goat is not like poultry or pig. They have only 1 stomach but goat have 4 stomachs named rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. Reason for this is that goats have to digest fiber of plants. Poultry can not survive on plant fiber (reports says that some turkey and indigenous poultry breeds of eastern India […]
Goat Kid Feeding
Feeding of Preweaned Lambs from Birth to 90 days Age. Sheep are superior to goats in their growth rate as young animas. The birth weights of lambs and kids are nearly the same, in the range between 2-3 kg. The development of lambs in the first four months is faster than the kids. Doubling and […]