Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying College of Agricultural, Parbhani - 431402, India.
Total 298 kids out of total 1463 of different Osmanabadi cross breeds died out of total 1463 kids born during the period of January 1985 to December 1999. The pre-weaning mortality of these kids was studied to see the influence of sex, age, and breed on mortality trend. All the factors had significant effect on mortality trend. In general the mortality was more in males than females. Similarly among the age group the kids of below one month of age were more victims of death than of later age groups.
