Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)
Study on physical characters and color pattern of Rathi cattle in arid region of Rajasthan
Author(s): PK Kaushik, SC Goswami and Vijay Kumar
Abstract: The present survey was conducted on 1500 Rathi cattle to study the physical characters including color pattern of Rathi cattle in its breeding tract i.e. arid region of Rajasthan. Rathi animals were selected from the two tehsils from each district of breeding tract. From each tehsil 250 animals with different age group (0-3 months, 4-6 months, 7-12 months, 13-24 months, 25-36 months, more than 36 months and breeding bull) and sex was chosen randomly for present study. The observations and data on color pattern revealed that the overall population of Rathi cattle in study varied as 45.5% are brown, 29.0% with white patches, 3.3% are black, 18.3% are black with white patches and 3.9% are others. The milk vein in Rathi cows were observed mostly as prominent and zigzag (58.7%) followed by medium (29.2%) and small (11.9%) while the capacious udder size was observed in 40.8% of total cows. About 76.0% of horn were found to be evenly curved and medium sized and 24% of them were short. Medium size hump of Rathi cattle was observed in 49.5% of all Rathi cattle. Black color muzzle is quite prominent (47.6%) followed by brown color (34.5%). The variations observed in these characters may be due to the fact that Rathi is the admixture of four breeds which is reflected in its phenotypic characteristics.
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PK Kaushik, SC Goswami, Vijay Kumar. Study on physical characters and color pattern of Rathi cattle in arid region of Rajasthan. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(5):3429-3431.
