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Milk yield, milk composition and kid growth in Boer and East African Goats in Malawi

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Title Milk yield, milk composition and kid growth in Boer and East African Goats in Malawi
 
Creator Banda, J.W.
Steinbach, J.
Zerfas, H.P.
 
Subject GOATS
MALAWI
MILK YIELD
KIDS
GROWTH
WEIGHT GAIN
 
Description Milk yield and milk composition of local (LL) and Boer (BB) goats, and their crosses (BL) were estimated over 2 kidding seasons for 12 weeks of lactation using 3 techniques, i.e. kid-suckling, hand-milking and oxytocin + hand-milking. The average daily gain (ADG) and milk conversion of kids were also determined. The total milk yield was 75.7±2.0 kg. Milk yield in the dry and wet seasons was 84.6±3.1and 66.8 ± 2.6 kg, respectively (P
 
Date 2016-02-08T09:03:13Z
2016-02-08T09:03:13Z
1992
 
Type Conference Paper
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10568/70834
 
Language en