Assessment of cross breeding technological intervention for improving the productive performance of local non-descript Goats

The assessment on cross breeding technology employing boer cross breed bucks with local non-descript goats was carried out by KVK, Kattupakkam, Kanchepuram district to find out the performance of boer cross bucks with local non-descript goats. The results revealed that the breeding parameters of boer cross namely tupping, kidding and twinning percentage observed were as 42.81, 46.43 and 41.67, respectively and the average birth weight of boer cross bred kids was recorded as 1.93 kg, whereas the weaning weight of kids at two months of age was 7.53 kg. The economic analysis of the study revealed that the benefit cost ratio for the technological intervention of cross breeding of boer cross bucks with local non descript goats was 1.39 :1 which was comparatively higher than pure breeding of local non-descript goats.