Goats provide a dependable source of income to 40% of the rural population below poverty line in India and to many who do not possess any land. At present due to scarcity of land for animal husbandry practices necessitates the farmers to adopt alternative management practices and to intensify their goat production to meet the increasing demand for chevon in the domestic as well as international markets. Goat production system in India has started slowly moving from traditional low input extensive system to high input commercial production. One of the important limiting factors of intensive...