A Goat Feed Fmla that gave 62g per day Growth
The feed formula here is very simple. Just 2 ingredients in the concentrate.
This experiment was conducted in Cameroun with West African Dwarf Goats (9-12 months old and weighing 9-15kg). They were fed fresh Guatemala grass and concentrate (cassava flour, groundnut cake and 1% di-calcium phosphate). A salt lick was available free choice.
Concentrate containing 200g cassava flour plus 100g groundnut cake gave 52g/day growth rate.
200g cassava flour plus 150g groundnut cake gave 62g/day growth rate.
If you have cheap access to cassava flour and groundnut cake, this is a good formula to try out. It may even worth it to grow your own cassava. And of course, you can replace the Guatemala grass with any other grass that is available. Elephant grass is a good alternative.
Guatemala grass Morphological description
Robust perennial grass, forming large mats up to 5 m across with tangled stolons and rhizomes; shallow-rooted. Flowering culms up to 3 m tall, up to 5 cm diameter at the base. Leaf blades up to 120 cm long and remarkably (up to 10 cm) wide, shortly tomentose on the upper surface, under surface and upper leaf sheaths are glabrous .
Terminal and axillary inflorescences can have 5–8 slender racemes.
From http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/fora...rsonii.htm
Experiment source: https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=BAG...te&f=false
The feed formula here is very simple. Just 2 ingredients in the concentrate.
This experiment was conducted in Cameroun with West African Dwarf Goats (9-12 months old and weighing 9-15kg). They were fed fresh Guatemala grass and concentrate (cassava flour, groundnut cake and 1% di-calcium phosphate). A salt lick was available free choice.
Concentrate containing 200g cassava flour plus 100g groundnut cake gave 52g/day growth rate.
200g cassava flour plus 150g groundnut cake gave 62g/day growth rate.
If you have cheap access to cassava flour and groundnut cake, this is a good formula to try out. It may even worth it to grow your own cassava. And of course, you can replace the Guatemala grass with any other grass that is available. Elephant grass is a good alternative.
Guatemala grass Morphological description
Robust perennial grass, forming large mats up to 5 m across with tangled stolons and rhizomes; shallow-rooted. Flowering culms up to 3 m tall, up to 5 cm diameter at the base. Leaf blades up to 120 cm long and remarkably (up to 10 cm) wide, shortly tomentose on the upper surface, under surface and upper leaf sheaths are glabrous .
Terminal and axillary inflorescences can have 5–8 slender racemes.
From http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/fora...rsonii.htm
Experiment source: https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=BAG...te&f=false