A survey was conducted to study the health care and marketing practices adopted by the goat farmers of Mewar region in Southern Rajasthan. It was found that the majority of goat rearers practiced deworming (64.17%), vaccination (35.28%) and control of ecto parasites (49.72%) in a scientific manner. Most of goat rearers preferred to sale their animals in their own village round the year on the basis of physical appearance and owners for their home consumption used maximum goat milk. Significant effect of flock size was observed on deworming, marketing of animals and use of goat milk. However, other health care practices, time of sale and selling criteria used by respondents were not significantly influenced by the flock size.
Goat, Health care, Marketing, Mewar region, Southern Rajasthan
