Year: 2022 | Month: April | Volume 12 | Issue 2
Physical and Morphometric Characterisation of Badri Cattle
Aashaq Hussain Dar
Sanjay Kumar
Monika Sodhi
Javid Ur Rahman
Shikha Yadav
Naseer Ahmad Baba
DOI:10.30954/2277-940X.02.2022.9
Abstract:
Badri cattle is the only registered cattle breed of Uttarakhand. In the present study, an effort was made to characterize Badri cattle of the Kumaon and Garhwal region on the basis of physical and morphometric traits. The body length (BL), height at withers (HAW), heart girth (HG), paunch girth (PG), ear length (EL), face length (FL) and tail length (TL) of males from the Kumaon region were found to be 102.00±0.91, 103.25±1.12, 140.80±0.62, 145.64±1.71, 20.83±0.42, 37.82±0.45 and 73.40±0.34 cms, respectively. Similarly, the males from the Garhwal region had BL, HAW, HG, PG, EL and FL of 107.76±2.91, 106.80±3.59, 141.02±2.1, 146.28±2.22, 19.04±0.47, 37.78±0.80 and 77.42±2.16 cms, respectively. The study concludes that Badri cattle is a small sized cattle breed and the cows from both the Kumaon and Garhwal regions of Uttarakhand state had significantly lower morphometric characteristic estimates than the males.
Highlights
- Badri cows from both Kumaon and Garhwal region were having significantly lower estimates of morphometric characteristics than the males.
- The body length (BL), height at withers (HAW), heart girth (HG), paunch girth (PG) and tail length (TL) varied significantly with the sex of animals.
- The population of Badri cattle in plainer areas of breeding tract is declining owing to crossbreeding with Jersey and Red Sindhi breeds.
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