Walking and Dry Season Stresses Modulates the Physiological, Heamatological and Biochemical Profiles of Indigenous Local Goats in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Abstract

Andaman and Nicobar Islands has indigenous goat breeds such as Teressa and Andaman local goat are used mainly for meat purpose, of which, Teressa breed has been recognized by Government of India (Jayakumar et al., 2016). As per the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, per capita availability and production of goat meat is lesser in Andaman & Nicobar Islands as compared to National average. Total number of goat population in Andaman and Nicobar Islands is 65324 as per the 19th Livestock Census of India (2012). There were some preliminary studies were conducted on goat management in Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Saha et al., 2004; Sunder, 2014; Sunder et al., 2016a; Sunder et al., 2016b).