Etawah-grade goat is a graded up line between Kacang and Etawah goats, which well adapted
to Indonesia’s humid tropical climate. In order to fulfill national meat requirement, it is necessary to
increase the population by increasing prolificacy. This study was aimed to determine whether the
body and head measurements of the Etawah-grade does can be used as selection criteria for indirect selection of the litter size. The use of does at 3-4 years old (I3
dental condition) from BPTU-HPT
Pelaihari and Cordero farms (51 and 55 does, respectively) were based on their specific geographical location characteristics. The body variables were withers height, hip height, body length, chest
width, chest depth, thurl width, rump length, chest girth, and cannon circumference, whereas for
head variables were acrocranion–prosthion, basion–prosthion, lower jaw length, head height, tuber facial
left-right, nasion–rhinion, entorbitale left-right, euryon left-right, supraorbitale left-right. Bergmann
methods were applied for measuring the differences of body and head parameters followed by the
principal component, Fisher’s discriminant, and principal component regression analyzes. All regression coefficients of linear body measurementss were highly correlated to the litter size (P