%0 Journal Article
%T Growth, Production and Reproduction Performance of Mehsana Goat.
%A A.C. Patel
%A D.P. Pandey
%J Journal of Livestock Science
%D 2013
%I 
%X The present study was conducted to evaluate the production and reproduction performance of Mehsana goats and growth performance of their offspring under farm condition. Data pertaining to growth traits of 381 Mehsana kids born during the years 2007 to 2010 and production and reproduction performance of does maintained at Sheep Goat Research Station, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar, India were analyzed. The overall means for body weight at birth, weaning (3 months), 6 months, 9 months and 12 months were observed to be 2.81 ¡À 0.02, 9.92 ¡À 0.11, 13.24 ¡À 0.16, 15.70 ¡À 0.21, and 19.23 ¡À 0.24 kg, respectively, whereas, daily weight gain (gm) from birth to weaning (ADG-I) and weaning to six months (ADG-II)were found to be 76.91 ¡À 1.12 and 40.05 ¡À 1.35 gm, respectively. The type of birth revealed better growth in kids born as single up to weaning, however, its reverse was true for kids born as twins which had comparatively higher weight gain during post weaning period. The overall means for production and reproduction performance traits, viz., total lactation milk yield, peak yield, days to attain peak yield, lactation length, dry period, weight at first mating, age at first service, service period, weight at first kidding, gestation period, age at first kidding, weight at kidding and kidding interval were estimated to be 70.23 ¡À 1.37 kg, 0.580 ¡À 0.01 kg, 156.23 ¡À 3.72 days, 224.00 ¡À 4.19 days, 112.31 ¡À 6.64 days, 26.00 ¡À 0.50 kg, 560.43 ¡À 20.83 days, 209.66 ¡À 2.90 days, 28.19 ¡À 0.45 kg, 148.97 ¡À 0.28 days, 716.52 ¡À 19.01 days, 31.58 ¡À 0.29 kg and 364.40 ¡À 4.32 days, respectively. The overall means for Fat, SNF and Protein contents in the goat milk were 3.17 ¡À 0.02 %, 8.32 ¡À 0.01 % and 3.13 ¡À 0.01 %, respectively.
%K age at first mating
%K weaning
%K lactation length
%K Mehsana breed
%K goat
%U http://livestockscience.in/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/patel-n-pandey.pdf