Vol. 12, Special Issue 7 (2023)

Author(s):
K Chinnamani, J Muralidharan and AK Thiruvenkadan

Abstract:
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the carcass characteristics of Tellicherry kids under intensive and semi-intensive systems of management. Sixteen weaned kids were selected at random and they were placed in two treatments comprising of eight kids in each group. The dressing percentages of intensive and semi-intensively reared kids were differed highly significantly (p<0.01). The primal cuts percentage did not differ significantly for legs, loin, rack, breast and foreshank and the neck and shoulder. The loin eye area was highly significant (p<0.01) between intensive and semi-intensive intensively reared kids. Kidney and omental fat was significantly (p<0.05) higher in intensive system when compare to semi-intensive system of rearing in Tellichery goats.