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Feeding Goats for Improved Milk and Meat Production (Part 9)
By: George F. W. Haenlein
Cooperative Extension Dairy Specialist University of Delaware
Website: http://ag.udel.edu
About the Author
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TABLE 7. Effect of feeding urea-ammonia treated rice straw on weight gain of young
Indonesian goats (1) |
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Daily weight gain , g |
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9 weeks |
13 weeks |
Rice straw 75% + cassava leaves 25% |
53 |
45 |
Rice straw 50% + cassava leaves 50% |
91 |
92 |
Treated rice straw 75% + cassava leaves 25% |
93 |
84 |
Treated rice straw 50% + cassava leaves 50% |
105 |
101 |
Treated rice straw 100% |
11 |
27 |
(1) From Devendra, 1987.
TABLE 8. Body Condition Scoring of goats |
SCORE 1 |
Animal aspect: |
Emaciated, backbone is highly visible, forming a continuous ridge, flank is hollow,
ribs can be seen, pelvic bones are prominent |
Sternum: |
Sternal fat can easily be grabbed with the fingers, it is flat and slightly hard,
moves with the hand, sternal joints and beginning of ribs can be felt with slight touch of
fingers |
Lumbar: |
Lumbar vertebrae can be grabbed with the hand, they are rough and prominent, no muscle
or fat thickness is noted between skin and bones, transverse and articular processes are
easily felt with the fingers |
SCORE 2 |
Animal aspect: |
Slightly rough boned, backbone still visible with continuous ridge, prominent pelvis |
Sternum: |
Sternal fat is thicker, still can be grabbed with the fingers, there is a small tissue
layer between the skin and the sternal joints |
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Lumbar: |
Vertebrae can be grabbed with the hand still, but tissue mass appears over the
transverse processes, outlines of the transverse processes are more difficult to follow
with the fingers, spinous processes are less prominent, articular processes can still be
felt with the fingers |
SCORE 3 |
Animal aspect: |
Backbone not prominent, pelvis well covered |
Sternum: |
Sternal fat is thick, not mobile, difficult to grab, surrounded by tissue, palpation
is needed to find the sternal joints |
Lumbar: |
Tissue is covering lumbar vertebrae, but can be grabbed with 3 fingers, gliding with
the fingers over the spinous processes a slight hollow is felt, articular and transverse
processes are no longer found. |
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SCORE 4 |
Sternum: |
Difficult to grab the sternal fat because of its thickness, covering the sternal
joints |
Lumbar: |
Difficult to put fingers under transverse processes, wrapped in thick layer of tissue,
spinous processes can no longer be felt, are continuous |
SCORE 5 |
Sternum: |
Sternal fat can not be identified nor grabbed, thick mass covers ribs and sternum |
Lumbar: |
Thickness of tissues obscures transverse and spinous processes |
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