Dry matter intake and growth performance in osmanabadi goat kids maintained on DHN6 grass, Dashrath grass and Jowar straw

Abstract

The present study was conducted for 12 weeks on 6 Osmanabadi goat kids of either sex in confinement to study the Dry Matter Intake, Growth Performance of Osmanabadi Goat kids maintained on DHN6 grass, Dashrath grass and Jowar straw. Daily feed intake, weekly body weights were recorded for 12 weeks. It was found that dry matter intake, dry matter intake percentage, weekly body weight gain, and daily body weight gain were ranged 393.94 ± 0.95 to 566.79 ± 4.07 g, 3.43 ± 0.29 to 3.53 ± 0.27%, 11.90 ± 1.0 to 16.43 ± 1.04 kg, and 47.62±1.59 to 63.81±1.41 g, respectively during the study period. It was inferred that the feeding DHN6 grass, Dashrath grass, and Jowar straw without supplementation of concentrate mixture gives satisfactory growth performance in Osmanabadi goat kids.