Growth Comparison of Female Goats Fed with Treated Soybean Cake and Urea Incorporated Concentrate Mixture in Fodder Based Basal Diet in Western Hills of Nepal

M.R. Tiwari, D.P. Adhikary, R.P. Ghimire, S.H. Ghimire, D. Adhikari

Volume 13 Issue 6

Global Journal of Science Frontier Researc

The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is significant throughout the world today, fulfilling a number of needs of various cultural groups. Feeding value of treated soybean cake and urea to goats is not evaluated so far. Therefore, a study was carried out on growing female Khari and Jamunapari and Barberi crosses at Agriculture Research Station (Goat), Bandipur, Tanahun. Twelve female kids (4 – Khari, 4 – Jamunapari cross and 4- Barberi cross) just after weaning of age five months with average body weight of 10.08 kg were selected for experiment (150 days) and were divided into two groups having six animals ( 2 animals of each breed) in each group by using Complete Randomized Design (CRD). Two types of concentrate mixture (urea and treated soybean cake incorporated) were formulated with 16% of crude protein content. Dry matter requirement was taken @ 4 kg per 100 kg body weight. All experimental animals were drenched with Fenbendazole @ 5 mg/kg body weight against internal parasites before assigning in experiment. Concentrate mixture was provided to the experimental animals individually @ 1.5% of body weight in plastic vassal once a day in the morning whereas adlib amount of fodder were provided twice a day ingroup (morning and evening). Quantity of concentrate mixture and fodder given daily to the animals was weighed daily and refusal was weighed in next morning. Experimental animal had free access to drinking. Total feed intake by the goats was recorded daily for all experimental periods. The body weight gain of individual animals was measured fortnightly in the morning before feeding. Experiment revealed that average daily intake of concentrate mixture was higher (236.1g) in treated soybean cake incorporated concentrate mixture fed group (T1) than urea incorporated group (215.2 g) (T2) whereas fodder intake was higher in T2 (5.62 kg) than T1 (4.53 kg). Feed intake was no significant between groups and fodder intake differed significantly (P<0.001) between groups. Fe