Volume: 41 Issue: 2
Year: 2010, Page: 21-27, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2026.57.1.21-27
Received: Oct. 10, 2010 Accepted: Oct. 19, 2010 Published: Dec. 31, 2010
Data on body weight and body measurements were collected from the farmer’s flocks of All India Co-ordinated Research Project on goats for Malabari goats, from the northern part of Kerala. The correlation between body weight and body measurements at different ages was positive and strongly correlated in most cases. Simple, multiple and curvilinear regression models were fitted with body weight as the dependent variable and body measurements as independent variables. Body measurements succeed to describe more variation in live weight. Separate prediction equations were made for females and males as well as for singles, twins, triplets and quadruplets. The coefficient of determination in different equations indicate that chest girth succeed in estimating body weight more than any other linear measurement and chest girth in combination with two or more measurement predict the body weight better.
Keywords: Body weight, Body measurements, Malabari goats, Prediction, Correlation, Regression