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Indian Journal of Animal Research, volume 51 issue 6 (december 2017) : 988-992

Characterization of Gangatiri cattle breed in Gangatic plains of Eastern Uttar Pradesh 

Basant Kumar Bhinchhar, Vinod Kumar Paswan, Saroj, Satya Prakash Yadav, Prity Singh
1<p>Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Institute of Agirucultural Sciences,&nbsp;Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005, Uttar Pradesh, India.</p>
Cite article:- Bhinchhar Kumar Basant, Paswan Kumar Vinod, Saroj, Yadav Prakash Satya, Singh Prity (2016). Characterization of Gangatiri cattle breed inGangatic plains of Eastern Uttar Pradesh . Indian Journal of Animal Research. 51(6): 988-992. doi: 10.18805/ijar.11328.

ABSTRACT

The present research work for characterization of Gangatiri cattle was conducted on a herd maintained at Mirzapur district of Uttar Pardesh. This dual-purpose indigenous cattle breed is found mainly in Varanasi, Chandauli, Ghazipur and Ballia distric of eastern Utter Pradesh and adjacent areas of Bihar state of India., Medium sized dewlap, small brisket, sharp and smooth shoulder with medium legs was present in most of the animals. Medium sized bowl shaped udder with cylindrical shaped medium sized teats and prominent, crooked and branched milk veins were the other characteristic features of the herd. The overall least squares’ means for Ischium width of Rump (ISWR), Top line (TPL), Udder length (UL), Udder diameter (UD), Teat length (TtL), Udder circumference (UC), Distance between fore to fore (DFF) and rear to rear teats (DRR) were 20.79±0.57, 144.64±1.67, 26.17±1.21, 11.03±1.40, 5.33±0.31, 68.84±3.89, 6.03±0.50 and 4.93±0.21 cm, respectively.

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