Beetal Breed

Coat colour: Predominantly black; red, tan or black, heavily spotted on white also occur; males usually possess beard.

Body and legs: Resemble Jamunapari but smaller; face convex, lips black, eyes blue-black with white or brownish corneal surroundings; average body length, height and heart girth 86, 92 and 86 cm in bucks and 70, 77 and 74 cm in does respectively.

Ears: Long pendulous drooping. Beetal leaf shaped pinna.

Horns: Horizontal with backward and outward twisting.

Live weight: Mature buck 60–70 kg and doe 46 kg; birth weight 3 kg.

Kidding: Age at first kidding 20–22 months; kidding once a year; single or twins, rarely triplets.

Meat: Good quality with desirable flavour.

Milk: Average lactation yield 150 kg; highest 5.2 kg a day; 834 kg in 287 days recorded in a doe at NDRI: Karnal; fat 4.5%; dry period 144 days.

Other qualities: Good quality skin.

Reference :-  Goat Enterprise Central Institute for Research on Goats (CIRG)

Makhdoom Mathura UP