Cull Vegetables As Substitute For Conventional Forages
In Goat´s Diet

S.I. AL-Sultan
Department of Public Health and Animal Management, College of Veterinary Medicine, King Fisal University,
P.O. Box 11647 Alhasa 31982 . Saudi Arabia. E-mail: alsultan87@hotmail.com
 

                                                                                   Abstract

Comparison of certain responses of kids and nannies to a cull-vegetable diet as a substitute to the conventional diet (Barseem and Rhodes) was investigated. Kids after eight weeks of the experiment showed a significant increase in weight on all the three types of diet with more pronounced growth in the conventional diet containing Barseem and concentrate. On the other hand nannies exposed to the three types of diet following eight weeks of feeding displayed no significant increase in body weight as compared with the initial weight within each group or among the different groups. Similarly milk quality remained the same with no observable influence induced by the type of diet except that there was a slight increase in fat content of the cull –vegetable diet which require further investigation.

Key words: Goat, cull –vegetable, growth rate, milk quality.
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