Effect of fattening period on growth rate and carcass charactristics of Meriz and black goats (original) (raw)

2010, Egyptian Journal of Sheep and Goat Sciences

This study was carried out at the Animal Farm, Animal Production Department, College of Agriculture, University of Duhok, where 10 Meriz goats averaged 13.65 kg weight and 3-4 months old and 10 Black goats averaged 30.3 kg weight and 6 months old were randomly divided into two groups and allocated to be fattened for either 90 or 150 days. Result revealed that the daily gain, feed efficiency, dressing percentage based on live body weight, rib eye area and fat thickness, lean, fat and bone percentage averaged 98.73gm, 5.12 kg/kg, 46.

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