Reproductive traits for identifying prolific black Bengal goat (Capra hircus bengalensis) Chakrabortty P.S.1,*, Biswas C.K.1, Majumdar D.2, Sutradhar S.K.1 1Department of Animal Science, BCKV, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, India 2Department of Agricultural Statistics, BCKV, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, India *Corresponding author: partha3188@gmail.com
Online published on 3 August, 2023. Abstract The present investigation recorded that the average litter size was 2.03 per doe and the prolificacy rate being 202.92%. The result indicates that the litter size proportion for single, twin and triplet were 28.3%, 40.4% and 31.3% respectively. There was a tendency of increasing body weight with higher litter size and such variation was highly significant (P<0.01). The result revealed that the overall mean age of first estrus was 209.08±2.06 days. Maximum age of first conception was 226.18±5.39 days when the animal gave single birth and the minimum AC was 216.65±4.9 days when it produced triplet indicating that failure of conception was more in single bearing does. Service period were recorded to very significantly (P<0.01) among different litter bearing groups, the highest value was observed in triplet producing does (80.88±4.68 days). This is an important finding to understand that, less Age of Puberty (AP), Age at 1st Conception (AC), Days Open (DO) & Kidding Interval (KI) has prominent benefit for multiple foetuses and thus achieving economic benefit. Top Keywords Black Bengal Goat, Prolificacy, Reproductive Parameters, Kidding size, Days Open, Kidding Interval, Age of Puberty, First Conception, Number of Service per Conception, Service Period, Length of Gestation, Age at First Kiddin. Top |