Evaluation of Productive and Reproductive Performance of Indigenous Goats Reared Under Traditional Management Systems | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Veterinary Sciences | ||
| Articles in Press, Corrected Proof, Available Online from 26 October 2025 PDF (519.58 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejvs.2025.418629.3088 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Naeem Ullah1; Syed Muhammad Suhail1; Shakeeb ullah2; Shoaib Sultan3; Khalid Khan2; Assar Ali Shah* 4; Muhammad Farhan Qadir5; Inam Ullah6; Aftab Shaukat7 | ||
| 11. Department of Livestock Management, Breeding & Genetics, Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan. | ||
| 22. Department of Livestock Production and Management, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Swat, Pakistan. | ||
| 33. Department of Animal Nutrition, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan. | ||
| 4Department of Livestock Production and Management, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Swat, Pakistan. | ||
| 5College of Life Sciences, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China. | ||
| 6Department of Zoology, Sub-Campus Tank, Gomal University, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. | ||
| 7College of Veterinary Medicine South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, Guangzhou, China. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The research aimed to evaluate the productive and reproductive performance of local goat breeds managed under traditional systems in three tehsils of Swat: Kabal, Charbagh, and Matta. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data on 120 goats. Further, an automatic milk analyzer was used in analyzing 20+20+20=60 (20 from each tehsil) samples of milk. There was significant variation (P < 0.05) between sites in both age at puberty and age at first kidding, body weight, daily milk yield, litter size and most traits of milk composition. Nevertheless, there was no significant difference in the length of the estrous cycle, milk density, and pH. Goats in Matta showed early puberty and first kidding (327.60 ± 16.77 days and 588.25 ± 27.38 days respectively) and highest daily milk production (2.05 liters) compared to that of Charbagh and Kabal (1.29 liters) and (1.09 liters), respectively. The body weights of bucks and does also differed among sites and Matta does ones were heaviest (38.68 ± 1.12 kg). Parity had a significant effect on litter size. There was a significant location to location difference in composition of milk and in particular the fat, SNF, lactose and protein contents were in the range fat 3.94=3.74; SNF, 8.45=8.15%, lactose 3.69=3.63% and protein, 3.87=4.21% respectively. In all locations, fat was inversely associated with the milk yield whereas protein had a positive correlation with it. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Local does; Reproductive traits; Milk yield; Milk composition; Traditional management | ||
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