A.M. Khalaffalla and Y.R. Sulieman •
Kuku Research Station.
P.O. Box 89, Industrial ArealKhanrtown North.
In 1976 three exotic pure breeds Sannen, Toggenburg and Anglo-Nubian were imported in the Sudan for improving milk and meat production through crossbreeding with Local Nubian goat and multiplication of the pure breeds. Some performance studies on the exotic goat in Sudan were reported by Sulieman and El Shafie (1984) and Khalaffalla and El Shafie (1988) In these notes the lactation length, lactation milk yield and kidding interval of the exotic breeds and indigenous goat were reported.
Data taken from the records of the goat kept at Kuku research station for the period 1976 to 1979 were used in the study. Each breed was kept into a separate well shaded pen and all animals were fed ad lib–on the same diet (green forages and a concentrate mixture composed of 25% cotton seed cake, 25% wheat-bran and 50% sorghum grains). Water and salt-licks were available all the time. For accurate measurment of the lactation milk yield, kids were separated from the does one week after birth (i.e. after consuming all their colostrum) and were artificially reared.
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