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appendage on the upper side. Both sexes are polled. Tail is medium to long and thin. Fleece is white, extremely coarse and hairy. Belly and legs are devoid of wool. The milk production averaged 64.50 kg in a lactation period of 90 days. Tupping and lambing percentages in the spring and autumn seasons, are 61.54, 96.23% and 88.7, 32.7% respectively. The dressing percentage on the live weight basis at 6 months ranged from 40.90 to 49.49. vii) Sonadi Mainly found in Udaipur and Dungarpur districts of Rajasthan, also extends to northern Gujarat. The animals are fairly well built somewhat smaller to Malpura with long legs, light brown face with the colour extending to the middle of the neck, ears large, flat and drooping and generally have a cartilagenous appendage. Tail is long and thin. Both sexes are polled. Udder is fairly well developed. Fleece is white, extremely coarse and hairy. Belly and legs are devoid of wool. viii) Patanwadi (Syn. Desi, Kutchi, Kathiawari, Vadhiyari and Charotari). The breed includes three distinct strains i) non-migratory, red faced animals with small bodies, yielding relatively finer fleeces. These are typical Patanwadis and are located in north eastern Saurashtra; ii) the migratory type, with larger body and long legs, typical Roman nose and long tubular ears. This variety, producing coarser fleeces, is found in western and northern Gujarat; iii) the meat type, with big body, low stature ad coarser fleeces, found in south eastern areas around Palitana. It is distributed in coastal plain region of Saurashtra and Kutch districts and sandy loamy areas of Patan, Kadi Kalol, Sidhapur and Chanssama taluks of Mehsana district of Gujarat. ix) Muzaffarnagri Also known as Bulandshahri is vastly available at Muzaffarnagar, Bulandshar, Saharanpur, Meerut, Bijnor and Dehradun districts of Uttar Pradesh and parts of Delhi and Haryana. Pure specimens are found in Muzaffarnagar district. The animals are medium to large in size, face lines slightly convex. Face and body are white with occasional patches of brown or black, ears and face occasionally black. Both sexes are polled. Males sometimes contain rudimentary horns. Ears are long and drooping. Tail is extremely long and reaches fetlock. Fleece is white, coarse and open. Belly and legs are devoid of wool. As the breed is one of the heaviest, largest and very well adapted to irrigated areas, its gradual decline in number necessitates conservation. x) Jalauni It is distributed over Jalaun, Jhansi and Lalitpur districts of Uttar Pradesh. The animals are medium sized with straight nose line. Both sexes are polled. Ears are large, flat and drooping. Tail is thin and medium in length. Fleece is coarse, short-stapled and open, generally white. Belly and legs are devoid of wool. according to the 1972 census its population was 0.179 million. The Uttar Pradesh Government is presently engaged in upgrading Jalauni with Nali to improve its wool yield and quality. Although Jalauni does not very much differ from Nali in body size and in general appearance, Nali crosses show improvement in fleece production as reflected by fleece weight, staple length and quality. 4.1.3 Hairy type i) Deccani The breed is spread over the greater part of the Central Peninsular region, comprising the semi-arid areas of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karanataka. It covers the major part of Maharashtra especially the Pune Division, parts of Kurnool, Mehboobnagar, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Anantpur, Warrangel and the entire districts of Medak and Hyderabad in Andhra 351
Pradesh and Bihar, Bijapur, Gulbarga and Raichur districts in Karnataka. The animals are medium sized, predominantly black with white markings. White and brown/fawn animals are also seen. In a survey in Maharashtra, 54.92% animals were completely black, 21% black with white or brown spots on head and 24% black or white with brown spots. Rams are horned but ewes are polled. Ears are medium long, flat and drooping. Tail is short and thin. Fleece is extremely coarse, hairy and open. Belly and legs are devoid of wool. ii) Bellary This breed is not very different from Deccani. Animals found to the north of the Tungabhadra River are called ‗Deccani‘ and those to the south of it ‗Bellary‘. Mostly found in Bellary district of Karnataka. The animals are medium sized with body colour ranging from white through various combinations of white and black to black. One third of the males are horned, females are generally polled. Ears are medium long, flat and drooping. Fleece is extremely coarse, hairy and open. Belly and legs are devoid of wool. 4.1.4 Mutton breeds Claims with respect to mutton production are based largely upon the appearance of the animal. Some breeds are superior to others in mutton production. Specialized mutton breeds, mature fast, have high prolificacy, higher body weight gains, high feed conversion efficiency, high carcass yield and produce good quality mutton. These are usually maintained under more intensive management as com pared to wool breeds. In India, mutton breeds have been imported from time to time from U.K. Australia and other countries for bringing about improvement in mutton production in indigenous breeds. Brief description of these sheep breeds is given below. a) Exotic i) Suffolk It is a medium wool type with its native home in Suffolk and surrounding countries in England and has long reputation for the superior quality of meat. It is an alert and active sheep developed through the use of large-type dark faced Southdown rams on an old strain known as the Norfolk. They have straight legs and are large in size. It is black faced and ears and legs are the commanding characteristics. The ears are long and pointed and are generally carried at very slide droop or horizontally. The head and ears are entirely free from wool and black hair extend to a line or back base of the ears. There is no wool below the knees and hocks. Both rams and ewes are polled although the males frequently have scurs. The fleece is moderately short, dense and fine with 50 S or 58 S count. The greasy wool yield is 2.75 to 3.25 kg annually. The breed is the foremost mutton breed. The carcass is full of lean meat evenly marbled and with no waste fat and the flavour is excellent. Purebred or graded suffolks have the capacity for rapid growth because of abundant milk of their mothers. As grazer suffolk in among the best because of its actively and rustling qualities. Suffolk ewes are prolific. The mature rams in good condition weigh from 100 to 135 kg and ewes from 70 to 100 kg. Suffolk imported in India have performed relatively poorly as producers especially in reproduction and survivability than Polled Dorsets. Males were in general heavier than females at all ages except at birth. The body weight were however observed to be lower than in their home tract because of change in the environment i.e. tropical vs temperate. However the body weight improved over the years Lambing and fertility percentage also improved over years. Six monthly greasy fleece production in the spring was less than in autumn during 1976-1977. Males always clippied heavier fleece than females. Six monthly greasy fleece weight was found to be 1.459 kg. In general the greasy fleece production decreased over years which was indicative of some stress in the hot semi-arid climate. ii) Dorset Dorsets are of medium size. The body is moderately lowest, compact and of a medium degree of smoothness and quality. The back is generally strong and the breed is generally deep bodied. The origin of Dorset is clouded in obscurity, but it is well known, that they developed 352
Page 1 and 2: 1. Introduction ANNEXURE - IX-C SHE
Page 3 and 4: 2. Classification, Origin and Domes
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ii) Consistency The normal consiste
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collection frequencies per day in 3
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iv) Altitude High altitude and poor
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containing diluents enriched with a
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6. Nutrients Although spermatozoa u
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7. 3.1 Puberty Puberty in the femal
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Estrogen in large quantities inhibi
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The udder becomes firm and enlarged
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7. 3. 8 Interlambing interval It is
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8. Nutrition 8.1 Components of Shee
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allied to the various amino acids o
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animals. A deficiency of salt is sh
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seem to have most significance in s
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Table 8.2 Chemical composition of g
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Table 8.3 Nutritive value of fodder
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Mineral and vitamin Requirement If
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Table 8.5 Total digestible nutrient
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Table 8.7 continued....... c) Lacta
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shirinking due to reclaimation of l
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Sorghum-Berseem-Maize Improved vari
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9. Housing and Management 9.1 Syste
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) Shearing, skirtng and primary cla
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The availability of pastures which
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fodder as green or hay, concentrate
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9.2.2 Lambs Efforts should be made
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Mortality in young lambs and other
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land and they depend on the forest
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age and fed intensively till they a
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Overnight teasing and drafting ridd
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The secretion of milk takes place d
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with coarse and hairy breeds showed
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11. Sheep Production System in Diff
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12. Wool Production and quality 12.
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crosses with Dorset and Merinos, Pa
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13. Meat Production 13.1 MeatProduc
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Table 13.1 Mutton (sheep) productio
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14.4 Utilization of milk Sheep are
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one crushing mills and about 360 bo
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16. Sheep Records It is essential t
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17. Diseases and their Control Morb
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Atropin sulphate 2.0 mg/kg. body we
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contents by neutralization tests wi
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prophylactic, foot and mouth vaccin
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