07-21-2019, 09:42 PM
Red Sokoto and Sahelian goats gained 60g/day in weight when fed digitaria smutsii hay and concentrate. In terms of dry weight (that is, with no moisture in them), the hay was fed at 1.5% of the goats' body weight and the concentrate at 1.5% too.
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The concentrate consists of 30% maize, 45.5% maize offal, 18.5% soya beans meal, 1% salt and 2% bone meal.
When groundnut cake was used to replace soya beans meal, growth was 28.4g/day. With cotton seed cake it was 22.3g/day Water and mineral lick were available at all time.
7 months old goats were used and the experiment lasted for 90 days.
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Pic of red sokoto and sahelian,digitaria smutsii
Pictures of the six studied goat breeds. a West African Dwarf, b Red Sokoto, c Sahel, d Alpine, e Spanish, and f Saanen.
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Pict...675148/amp
Digitaria smutsii picture below. Also called common finger grass, digit grass, pangola grass, woolly finger grass (English); digitaria (French); pangolagras (German); pangola, pasto pangola (Spanish).
Experiment source: https://scialert.net/fulltextmobile/?doi...759&org=11
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The concentrate consists of 30% maize, 45.5% maize offal, 18.5% soya beans meal, 1% salt and 2% bone meal.
When groundnut cake was used to replace soya beans meal, growth was 28.4g/day. With cotton seed cake it was 22.3g/day Water and mineral lick were available at all time.
7 months old goats were used and the experiment lasted for 90 days.
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Pic of red sokoto and sahelian,digitaria smutsii
Pictures of the six studied goat breeds. a West African Dwarf, b Red Sokoto, c Sahel, d Alpine, e Spanish, and f Saanen.
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Pict...675148/amp
Digitaria smutsii picture below. Also called common finger grass, digit grass, pangola grass, woolly finger grass (English); digitaria (French); pangolagras (German); pangola, pasto pangola (Spanish).
Experiment source: https://scialert.net/fulltextmobile/?doi...759&org=11