Università degli studi di Sassari, Facoltà di Agraria - Gallizzi
Abstract
In this first paper, the Authors illustrate the importance of the goat
breeding in Sardinia (Italy) and report on the results of a study concerning
the morphological characters of the Sardinian goat; they surveyed 19 somatic
measurements, 7 body indexes, the live weight, the udder type and other
secondary characters. These resu1ts were obtained with males and females
aged 3,5 and more, 2,5 and 1,5 years. The goats were from 90 typical herds
of 15 different Sardinian areas; by hierarchical analysis of variance, the
Authors identified 3 sub-populations in the whole Sardinian goat population
