Growth performance of growing kids under field conditions

Abstract

The present on farm trial was conducted to assess the effect of supplementary feeding of locally made concentrate mixture on growth performance of kids under field condition. Eighteen healthy non-descript local male kids having body weight 4.73±0.12 kg (aged 3–4 m) were selected and randomly distributed into three equal groups viz. T1 (Control i.e. farmer's practice-only grazing), T2-Grazing plus supplementary feeding of locally made concentrate mixture, T3-Grazing plus supplementary feeding of locally made concentrate mixture + two times deworming. The control (T1) group was maintained solely on grazing for 5–6 hr on local grazing land, kids of T2 and T3 groups were fed locally made concentrate mixture @ 3% of body weight along with grazing for 150 d. An additional deworming of kids (T3) was done two times at 60 d interval. The results showed that the average daily gain (g/day) of goats were significantly (P 0.05) difference between T2 and T3 groups. Similarly, the dressing percent and meat yield of T2 (48% and 6.35 kg) and T3(48% and 6.56 kg) group was higher than T1(45% and 4.44 kg).Therefore, it was concluded that feeding of locally made concentrate mixture along with grazing improved growth performance in growing male kids.