Cross-breeding

Cross-breeding There are very many situations in which the ideal producing animal is some intermediate between a tropical adapted and an improved temperate breed. This  applies particularly to dairy cattle kept under intensive conditions in the humid tropics and in many parts of the wet-dry tropics and to beef cattle under range conditions in the wet-dry tropics and the subtropics. This intermediate can most easily be formed by crossbreeding. A...

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Goat Farm economic feasibility

Goat Farm economic feasibility Goats are very important species of livestock in India, mainly on account of their short generation intervals, higher rate of prolificacy and the easewith which the goats and their products can be marketed. Goats can sustain themselves on sparse vegetation and extreme climatic conditions where other species of animals may perish. Goats produce a variety of products, mainly meat, skin, milk, fleece and manure. Goats...

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Research in sheep and goat production

Research in sheep and goat production The results of research in sheep-breeding were recently reviewed by Acharya in a discussion paper on breeding strategy for sheep in India. In addition to reviewing the performance of important pure-bred native breeds with respect to body weight, wool production and quality, lamb and adult survival, reproductive performance, etc., the author reviewed the effect of non-genetic and genetic factors on these...

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