goats category in tamilnadu
Sheep Breeds
Indian sheep breeds
1. Mecheri
It is distributed in Salem, Erode, Karur, Namakkal, and fewer parts of Dharmapuri districts of Tamilnadu.
It is a meat purpose breed.
It has medium sized body with pale purplish skin color.
There are no horns for both the sexes.
Tail is smaller and slender.
Adult male average body weight 36kg.
Adult female average body weight 22kg.
2. Chennai red
This is distributed in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Villupuram, Thiruvannamalai districts of Tamilnadu.
It is meat purpose breed.
Majority are purple in color.
Certain animals have colored stripes on their forehead.
Adult male average body weight 36kg.
Adult females average body weight 24 kg.
3. Ramanadhapuram white
This is distributed in Ramanadhapuram, Sivagangai, and Virudhunagar districts of Tamilnadu.
It is meat purpose breed.
It has medium sized body.
Majority of them are white in color.
Certain goats hold black colored stripes all over their body.
Adult males have their bent horns, whereas females with absence of horns.
Legs are smaller and slender.
Adult male average body weight 31kg.
Adult female average body weight 23kg.
4. Keezhakaraisal
This is distributed in Ramanadhapuram, Sivagangai and Thirunelveli districts of Tamilnadu.
It is meat purpose breed.
It has medium sized body.
It is found in black red skin color.
Black colored bands are found on the skin in the regions of head, stomach and legs.
Tail is smaller and slender.
Adult male goats are found with stronger coiled horns.
Majority of the goats are found with wattle, under the jaw/throat.
Adult male average body weight 29kg.
Adult female average body weight 22kg.
5. Vembur
It is distributed in Vembur, melakarandhai, keezha karandhai, nagalapuram regions, Tuticorin and Virudhunagar districts of Tamilnadu.
It is meat purpose breed.
These are taller breeds.
They have white color skin with red color spots over their body.
Ears are drooped out.
Tail is smaller and slender.
Adult males are found with horns and absence of horns in case of females.
Adult males average body weight 35kgs.
Adult females average body weight 28kgs.
6. Neelagiri
These are distributed in Neelagiri district of Tamilnadu.
It is wool purpose breed.
They are medium weighed animal.
Majority are found in white colors.
Certain goats are found with purple spots on their body and face.
Ears are broad and drooped out.
Females are without horns.
Adult male average body weight 31kg.
Adult female average body weight 31kg.
7. Trichy black
These are distributed in Trichy, Perambalur, Dharmapuri and Salem districts of Tamilnadu.
It is wool purpose breed.
These are smaller breeds.
Black coloured all over the body.
Adult males are found with horns and females without horns.
Ears are smaller, facing forward and downwards.
Adult male average body weight 26kg.
Adult female average body weight 19kg.
8. Coimbatore
It is distributed in Coimbatore district of Tamilnadu.
It is wool purpose breed.
Medium weighed animal.
Found in white colors, with black or purple colored bands, seen over the regions of head and neck.
30% of adult females are free of horns.
Adult male average body weight 25kg.
Adult female average body weight 20kg.
9. Deccani
Deccani breed is an admixture of the woolly types of Rajasthan and the hairy types of Andra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
It is found in Bombay-Deccan region and parts of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh States.
The sheep is small and hardy, and well adapted to poor pastoral conditions.
It possesses a coloured fleece, black and gray colours being more dominant.
The average annual yield of wool being 4.54 kg per sheep.
The wool is of a low grade and is a mixture of hair and fine fibres, mostly consumed for the manufacture of rough blankets (Kambals).
The flocks are maintained chiefly for mutton.
10. Nellore
It is distributed in Nellore, Prakasam and Ongole districts of Andhra Pradesh.
They are tall animals with little hair except at brisket, withers and breech.
Rams are homed ewes are polled.
Long and drooping ears;
Majority of animals carry wattles.
Males have average body weight of 36 kg and female have 28 kg.
Nellore is the tallest breed of sheep in India, resembling goats in appearance.
It has a long face and long ears with the body densely covered with short hair.
The majority of the flocks are of fawn or deep red fawn colour.
11. Mandya
It is distributed in Mandya district of Karnataka.
Relatively small animals colour white - sometimes face is light brown which may extend up to neck.
Compact body with typical reversed "U" shaped conformation from the rear.
Ears long, leafy and drooping.
Both sexes polled.
Coat extremely coarse and hairy adult male weighs 35 kg and female weighs 23 kg.
Best mutton type conformation among the Indian breeds.
12. Marwari
Sheep are hardy, yielding coarser carpet variety white wool of a mixed hairy composition.
This sheep is characterized by long legs, black face and a prominent nose.
Fleshy appendages under throat, known as wattles, are often present.
Tail is short and pointed.
The sheep are found all over Jodhpur and parts of Jaipur districts.
Flocks are raised in Pali and Barmer districts.
The animals migrate to distant places in Uttar Pradesh, remote districts of Madhya Pradesh and sometimes to the northern parts of Maharashtra.
They possess high resistance to disease and worms.
The yield of wool per year is 0.90-1.81 kg per animal.
13. Gaddi
Sheep are small in size, and are found in Kishtwar and Bhadarwah tehsils of Jammu.
A large number inhabit the Kulu valleys in HP winter, and in summer they graze the highest elevations of them Pir Panjal Mountains, mostly in the Paddar range.
Rams are horned, ewes hornless; fleece is generally white with brown coloured hair on the face.
Wool is fine and lustrous; average annual yield is 1.13 kg per sheep, clipped thrice a year.
A part of this clip is sent to Dhariwal mills and Amritsar markets.
Undercoat is used for the manufacture of high quality Kulu shawls and blankets.