N. Kunjikutty ¹, Annamma Kurian ¹, T. V. Viswanathan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Nutrition, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, Trichur, IN

Abstract

Providing a properly balanced starter feed to kids from a very young age leads to a faster weight gain in kids and at the same time sparing a large proportion of goat milk for human consumption. Animal protein sources such as milk products and fish meal play an important role in balancing feed mixtures in regard to protein quality for young ruminants. Since milk products ore exorbitantly costly for use in animal feeding, fish meat or dried fish has been the ingredient of choice for this purpose.

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P. Gangadevi ¹, N. Kunjikutty ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Nutrition, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, IN

Abstract

The caprine species has not been the subject of interest for scientists for many years as compared to other domestic animals and hence few research data are available on the feeding habits and nutrient requirements of these animals. However, several workers in different parts of the world have earnestly started attempts to develop this species of animals for production purposes.

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