author(s)
Sukhwinder Singh, Rajesh Kasrija and Parminder Singh

abstract
The present study was conducted on randomly selected 240 goat farmers belonging to six different agro-climatic zones of Punjab (40 farmers from each zone) to determine breeding knowledge level of goat farmers. The goat farmers were interviewed personally at their goat farm. Knowledge about breed specific character, age of sexual maturity in does, age of sexual maturity in bucks, heat detection and heat signs were known to 45.00%, 40.42%, 45.00%, 34.58% and 54.17% respectively in Punjab. Knowledge about methods of mating, male: female for breeding, age of castration, gestation period, methods of pregnancy diagnosis, care during pregnancy and complication during pregnancy was with 32.08%, 40.00%, 43.75%, 83.33%, 20.83%, 40.83% and 33.75% goat farmer. Knowledge about signs of kidding, complication during kidding, care after kidding, lactation period in doe, kidding interval, sexually transmissible diseases, causes of pregnancy loss, reproductive disorder and best breeding season was possessed by 39.17%, 32.50%, 34.17%, 33.75%, 30.00%, 24.58%, 21.25%, 19.58% and 49.58% goat farmers. The mean awareness of goat farmers about breeding practices in Punjab was 38.02%. In different agro-climatic zones of Punjab, breeding knowledge scores of goat farmers were significantly different (P<0.05). The present study suggests assessing breeding knowledge level of goat farmer first before organizing knowledge enrichment drives related with breeding of goats in different areas.