Caracterización morfológica de la cabra criolla del Ecuador en el cantón Zapotillo, provincia de Loja

Abstract

Faneroptic and zoometric measures to 136 Creole adult were taken in different group of goats of the parishes of Zapotillo Canton at Loja province, with which a descriptive and correlation analysis for morphological characterization of the Creole goat of Zapotillo was performed. The faneroptic measurements that were received were: coat color, hair type, color of mucous membranes, skin and hooves color, horn type, ear type, presence or absence of wattles, fronto-nasal profile and type of udder. In respect of zoometric measures, these were: Height at withers height of the rump and chest, bicostal and longitudinal diameter, depth of chest, length of head, face, rump and ear, cannon and chest circumference, and body weight, in addition the following zoometric indexes were calculated: body index, thoracic index, cranial index, pelvic index, transverse pelvic index, longitudinal pelvic index, index of relative weight, relative shortness index and cannon index. Finally, it was determined that the creole goats of Zapotillo are from squared and sub metric proportions, short hair, polychrome layer, black hair, big head and fronto-nasal profile, long ears and falls, horns of type Aegagrus, long and thin neck, low presence of wattles, wide and deep trucks but short, lumbar and jowl straight area, narrow rump, and with pronounced tilt, high, unstuck and directed upwards, strong limbs and correct bones, pigmented hooves and limited development of mammas.