CHARACTERIZATION OF NANDIDURGA BREED OF GOAT
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2011
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Karnataka Veterinary Animal And Fisheries Sciences University, Bidar
Abstract
The goat belongs to family Bovidae and genus Capra. Domesticated goats (C. hircus}
are descendents of the â pasangâ ? (C. aegagrus). The goat was one of the first animals to be
domesticated by man. Origin of the Indian goat breeds is not clearly known and is
believed to have been derived from wild goats which inhabited the Asian mountains in
antiquity. Signs of their domestication were found in excavations of Neolithic period
dating from 7,000 BC (Allchin, 1969; Mowlem, 1988).