Feeding strategies during dry summer for lactating desert goats in a rainfed area under tropical conditions

Ahmed, M.M.M.; Hag, F.M El; Wahab, F.S; Salih, Sawsan F. A.

doi:10.1016/s0921-4488(00)00185-1

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“…As the kids advanced in age from birth to 90 days, the effect of dam supplementation was reflected in their liveweight gains in agreement with the report of Ahmed et al [13]. The highest ADG value of 53.88 g·day -1 in this study fell within the range of 64 g·day -1 reported in West African Dwarf does [14][15][16], but much lower than 150 g·day -1 in Yankasa lambs [17].…”

Section: Birth Weight and Weight Gains Of Kidssupporting

confidence: 90%

Crop-residue supplementation of pregnant does influences birth weight and weight gain of kids, daily milk yield but not the progesterone profile of Red Sokoto goats

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-The parameters investigated in this study with the objective of evaluating growth, lactation and reproductive performances, included birth weight, litter size, 0-90 days gain and average daily gain of kids as well as the milk yield and progesterone profile of Red Sokoto does supplemented with crop-residue based rations during the long-dry period of the subhumid zone in Nigeria. A total of 7 treatments of 4 goats each was utilised. All treatment groups had a basal diet of Digitaria smutsii hay and natural pasture ad libitum. Ration A supplemented with the conventional concentrate was used as the positive control; rations B and C were supplemented with crop residues; and ration D without supplement was used as the negative control. Supplementation with concentrate and crop residues significantly increased (P < 0.05) the birth weight and liveweight gains of kids, but littersize was unaffected. The heaviest kids at birth (1.3-1.4 kg) were from does in treatments 1A, 2A and 2C, while does in treatments 1B, 2B, 1C and D had the lightest kids (1.07-1.18 kg). The highest gains of 53.9 g·day -1 were recorded in treatment 2A and the least (32.4 g·day -1 ) in treatment 1B. Supplementation also significantly influenced (P < 0.01) the daily milk yield of dams over the 90-day period of the dry season. All the does had similar progesterone profiles from late gestation through parturition to early lactation irrespective of their treatment group. It was concluded that ration C fed at the 2% level is a good and affordable supplementary feed package for increased birth weight and preweaning gains in kids for meat production.Red Sokoto goats / supplementation / weight gains / milk / progesterone

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Section: Birth Weight and Weight Gains Of Kidssupporting

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Crop-residue supplementation of pregnant does influences birth weight and weight gain of kids, daily milk yield but not the progesterone profile of Red Sokoto goats

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“…Nevertheless, given the lack of less costly technique suitable for documenting diet selection of herbivores under free ranging conditions (Holechek et al, 1984), the results are comparable to DMI values measured directly (Ebong, 1995;Ahmed et al, 2001;Aregheore, 2002;Bakshi and Wadhwa, 2007) and indirectly (Sawe et al, 1998;Cerrillo et al, 2006). All supplemented goats demonstrated increased dry matter intake and modest body weight gain.…”

Section: Dry Matter Intake Body Weight Gain and N Balancementioning

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Feeding Acacia etbaica and Dichrostachys cinerea fruits to smallholder goats in northern Ethiopia improves their performance during the dry season

2008

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“…Dawit and Solomon (2009) reported supplementation with graded levels of vetch and alfalfa hay improved total DMI of Arsi-Bale sheep fed urea treated barley straw by 71%. Additionally, feed intake of experimental animals fed on a basal diet of urea treated sorghum residue was lower than the animals supplemented with concentrate mix (Ahmed et al, 2001). Figure 1 shows the change in daily DMI with time over the experiment period.…”

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Effect of urea treatment and concentrate mix supplementations on feed intake and digestibility of Horro sheep fed cured maize husk (Zea Mays) at Bako, Western Ethiopia

Defar¹,

Urgie²,

Melaku³

2017

Afr. J. Agric. Res.

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Feed intake and digestibility experiment were conducted using twenty yearling male Horro sheep weighing 20.42 ± 0.35 kg (mean ± SD). The objectives of the study were to evaluate the response of Horro sheep to feed intake and apparent digestibility when supplemented with different level of noug seed meal and wheat bran mix (1:1) on DM basis. For this study, randomized complete block design was employed. Experimental sheep were blocked into four blocks of five animals based on their initial body weight (BW) and randomly assigned to the four treatment diets within a block. The treatments allocated were sole UTMH (T1, control), UMH + 200 g concentrate mix (CM) (T2), UMH + 300 g CM (T3) and UMH + 400 g CM (T4) on DM basis per head/day for 90 days. Total DM intake over the experimental period was higher (P<0.001) for the supplemented groups as compared to the control group. The DM intake of control group showed a decreasing trend during the first 50 days of the experiment which later showed an increasing trend that brought the sheep to maintain their body weight. Digestible nutrient intake and apparent digestibility of nutrients were higher (P<0.001) for supplemented sheep than control group. It was concluded that supplementation with nougseed meal and wheat bran mix promoted feed intake and apparent digestibility of DM and CP in Horro sheep fed cured maize husk.

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Feeding strategies during dry summer for lactating desert goats in a rainfed area under tropical conditions

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Crop-residue supplementation of pregnant does influences birth weight and weight gain of kids, daily milk yield but not the progesterone profile of Red Sokoto goats

Crop-residue supplementation of pregnant does influences birth weight and weight gain of kids, daily milk yield but not the progesterone profile of Red Sokoto goats

Feeding Acacia etbaica and Dichrostachys cinerea fruits to smallholder goats in northern Ethiopia improves their performance during the dry season

Effect of urea treatment and concentrate mix supplementations on feed intake and digestibility of Horro sheep fed cured maize husk (Zea Mays) at Bako, Western Ethiopia

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