Coat colour: Brown, white, and admixture (common); off colours in typical patches; hair coarse and short.
Body and legs: Compact and medium sized; tail twisted and carries coarse pointed hair; nostrils short and pointed; wattles often present. Average body length, height and heart girth 80, 86 and 80 cm in bucks and 61, 68 and 62 cm in does respectively.
Ears: Long and flabby.
Horns: Small and pointed, curved upward and backward.
Live weight: Buck 50-70 kg and doe 25-35 kg; birth weight 2.5-2.75 kg.
Kidding: Once a year, twins common; average age at first kidding 19months.
Meat: Good meat. Milk: Average lactation yields 71 kg; lactation length 175 days. Other quality: Very widely adapted in different semiarid areas of the
Reference: – Goat Enterprise Central Institute for Research on Goats (CIRG)
Makhdoom Mathura UP
