DefinePK

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ABSTRACT


Seventy-three male and female Sudan Nubian goat kids
were used in this experiment. The kids were born during the period between
October 1998 to August 2000, to parent stock raised on traditional pastroralism.
These kids were used in completely randomized design to investigate the
effects of nutritional supplementation, sex, type of birth, parity order
and season of kidding on growth rates of Nubian goat kids under smallholder
system kept up to the age of 9 months. The result revealed that pre-weaning
average daily weight gain of kids was significantly p0.01 affected
by feeding supplementation, sex of the kid, litter size and season of
kidding, while parity order did not significantly affected this trait.
The pre-weaning growth rate of kids was significantly affected by feeding
supplementation, parity order and season of kidding, while sex of kid
and litter size exerted non-significant effect on this rate. The post-weaning
average daily weight gain was significantly p0.05 affected by feeding
supplement, while sex of the kid had a non-significant effect on this
trait. The post-weaning growth rate was not significantly affected by
feeding supplementation and the sex of the kid. The overall live weight
gain and the overall growth rate were not significantly affected by feeding
supplementation and the sex of the kid. There was a positive and a highly
significant p0.01 correlation between birth weight and weaning weight
of kids.

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