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The performance of the Small East African goats and their Saanen crosses in Malawi

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Title The performance of the Small East African goats and their Saanen crosses in Malawi
 
Creator Karua, S.K.
Banda, J.W.
 
Subject GOATS
BREEDS
MALAWI
ANIMAL PERFORMANCE
CROSSBREDS
LITTER SIZE
MILK YIELD
GROWTH RATE
BIRTH WEIGHT
 
Description The performance of randomly selected Malawian local goats and their Saanen crosses was compared. The average litter size at kidding was 1.35 and 1.52, respectively. Birth weights, 12-week weights and weaning weights at 17 weeks were respectively 2.2 kg (SE = 0.12 kg), 8.2 kg (SE=0.41 kg) and 10.7 kg (SE = 0.62 kg) for the local goats and 2.31 kg (SE=0.40 kg), 11.4 kg (SE = 1.59 kg) and 19.2 kg (SE = 2.39 kg) for the Saanen crosses (P
 
Date 2016-02-08T09:03:22Z
2016-02-08T09:03:22Z
1994
 
Type Conference Paper
 
Identifier 92-9053-284-X
http://hdl.handle.net/10568/70857
 
Language en