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    This document discusses the importance of goat and sheep rearing. It notes that goats are a backbone of the economy, provide insurance against crop failure, and are important for income generation and capital storage. Goats are smaller, easier to manage, and require less space than cows, making them suitable for women and children to handle. Goats also provide employment, improve nutrition, and are multipurpose. Rearing goats provides high economic returns compared to other enterprises. Sheep are uniquely able to utilize waste lands and weeds, and convert food into cash products and fertilizer while being docile. The document also provides general information on goats' reproductive cycles and lifespan.

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    This document discusses the importance of goat and sheep rearing. It notes that goats are a backbone of the economy, provide insurance against crop failure, and are important for income generation and capital storage. Goats are smaller, easier to manage, and require less space than cows, making them suitable for women and children to handle. Goats also provide employment, improve nutrition, and are multipurpose. Rearing goats provides high economic returns compared to other enterprises. Sheep are uniquely able to utilize waste lands and weeds, and convert food into cash products and fertilizer while being docile. The document also provides general information on goats' reproductive cycles and lifespan.

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    This document discusses the importance of goat and sheep rearing. It notes that goats are a backbone of the economy, provide insurance against crop failure, and are important for income generation and capital storage. Goats are smaller, easier to manage, and require less space than cows, making them suitable for women and children to handle. Goats also provide employment, improve nutrition, and are multipurpose. Rearing goats provides high economic returns compared to other enterprises. Sheep are uniquely able to utilize waste lands and weeds, and convert food into cash products and fertilizer while being docile. The document also provides general information on goats' reproductive cycles and lifespan.

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    Goat Cow

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    Annu Singh
    This document discusses the importance of goat and sheep rearing. It notes that goats are a backbone of the economy, provide insurance against crop failure, and are important for income generation and capital storage. Goats are smaller, easier to manage, and require less space than cows, making them suitable for women and children to handle. Goats also provide employment, improve nutrition, and are multipurpose. Rearing goats provides high economic returns compared to other enterprises. Sheep are uniquely able to utilize waste lands and weeds, and convert food into cash products and fertilizer while being docile. The document also provides general information on goats' reproductive cycles and lifespan.

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    DANVEER SINGH YADAV

    Assistant Professor
    Livestock Production Management
    Importance of Goat rearing

     Backbone of economy

     Insurance against crop failure and provides alternate

    source.

     Important role in income generation

     Capital storage
     Employment generation

     Improving household nutrition

     Smaller in size

     They are easier to manage

     Require less space

     Can be easily handled by women and children.


    The goat a minicow
     Multipurpose

     In hilly areas goats are also used for hauling light

    load.

     Rural area goat farming play a vital role to solve

    unemployment.
     Economic returns from keeping goats is high
    compared to other farming enterprises.

     Retunes of capital of up to 50% and recovery of


    70% of retail price are possible in goat farming.
    Goat is a poor man’s cow
     Nutritious and easily digestible milk to their
    babies but also regular source of additional
    income for poor and landless or marginal
    farmers.

     Feeding, milking and care of goats does not


    require much equipments and hard work.

     Capital for livestock and cost of feeding is also


    low.
     It is very economical to rear goats as they require a

    small amount of fodder and little space for housing.

     Goats are very resistant to diseases also, specially

    to tuberculosis.
     Four goats can be maintained as cheaply as one

    cow.

     In areas where fodder resources are limited and

    milch cattle do not thrive, goats can be successfully

    reared as they can thrive on that class of fodder on

    which other animals will starve to death.


    Sheep are unique
     Sheep are unique among domestic livestock

     Diverse environmental conditions

     Utilizing uncultivable waste lands and weeds from

    fields.
     They contribute to the sustenance of man by supply

    of food and raw material for clothing.

     Indian sheep possess qualities such as high

    resistance to diseases and resistance to heat and

    water stress, qualities that are not found in other

    exotic breeds.
     Sheep is most docile and earliest domesticated
    among farm animals for basic needs of food and
    clothing's.

     It converts food and roughage cheaply into good


    cash products and fertilize land.
    General Information on Goats
     Age at which 1st bred - 12-15 months

     Weight at which 1st bred - 18 Kg

     Age at first kidding - 17-20 moths

     Oestrus cycle - 17 -21 days

     Duration of heat - 1 to 2 days


     Gestation period - 150-155 days

     Service period - 90-120 days

     Kidding interval - 8-10 months

     Lactation length 150-200 days

     Optimum dry period 30-45 days


     Milking life of goat 10 years (upto 16 years)

     Sex ratio in kidding 1:1

     Mortality of kids 10%

     Mortality of adults 05%

     Age of castration of fattening 2 to 2.5 month

     Carcass dressing % 35-45%

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