Vol. 12, Special Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
Pankaj Chayal, RK Nagda, RK Joshi, Sunil Kumar Meena and Priyanka Swami

Abstract:
The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of birth weight on survivability of Sirohi goat kids. Under this study data were collected from 370 records of Sirohi kids died out of 21,790 total available Sirohi kids up to age of 0-12 months, maintained at Livestock Research Station, Bojunda, Chittorgarh and field unit of AICRP goat improvement project at College of Veterinary and animal science, Navania, Vallabhnagar (Udaipur) during year 2015 to 2021. The results indicate that birth weight had significant effect on the survivability of kids at 3-6 months of age, whereas non-significant at 0-3 and 6-12 month of age.