Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Daniel Tsado Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 168 ISBN: 9783659257087
Описание
A total of three (3) experiments were conducted to study the effect of age at castration, type of birth and sex on the growth performance of Savanna Brown goats semi-intensively managed. Two experiments (one and two) were designed to observe the pre-weaning and post-weaning effect of age at castration, type of birth and sex on the growth performance of the animals. A third experiment was also designed to study post weaning effect of age at castration, type of birth and sex on the growth performance of Savanna Brown goats under feedlot management. Each experiment lasted for 12 weeks. In the first and second experiments, forty eight (48) Savanna Brown goats (kids) aged between 2 - 8 weeks were used for this study. The goats were randomly allocated to 12 treatments (T1- T12) comprising of 2 replicates with 2 goats per replicate. T1 –T8 were goats castrated at ages 2,4, 6,and 8 weeks respectively and T9 and T10 and T11 and T12 comprised of 8 entire males and 8 females...
