CHARACTERIZATION OF A GOAT POPULATION FROM TRANSYLVANIAN AREA, VIEW BY MAIN TRAITS OF BODY CONFORMATION

Abstract

This chance exists because goat milk is not subject to quota and in Romania there are large regions that are adequate to this activity. The importance of goats breeding and exploitation in world and in our country is justifying by quality of exception of goat milk, which is recommended peculiarly for children, old aged and ill persons alimentation. The other important product obtained from goats, the meat, is appreciated for his dietetic qualities. Body conformation presents practical importance, because it expresses the productive potential of goats. Goat barrel must be long with withers height between 60 – 80 cm and superior line of back lightly increasing from withers to croup. In view to obtaining a better goat milk and meat production it could action through directional selection, setting up of lines and crossbred with superior productive potential. In conditions where caw milk production is conditioned by more and more factors imposed by European Union, goat breeding could be a viable alternative in that it means to assure an important part of milk and dairy products for population. Biologic material taken in study is characterized by mean values, for the main conformation traits, which are framed in a large measure between values limits presented in specialty literature: body weight 48 – 50 kg; withers height 59 – 62 cm; croup height 62 – 63 cm; body (barrel) length 68 – 72 cm; thorax (chest) perimeter 86 – 94 cm; thorax depth 31 – 32 cm; croup width 16 – 17 cm; chest width 19 – 20 cm; shinbone perimeter 9 – 10 cm. At the age of four, five months, Carpathian x Saanen crossbreds are realizing for most of conformation traits above 75 % from adult development of Carpathian breed.