Production and Reproductive performance of a flock of Sudanese Nubian goats fed on Molasses or sorghum based diets (1) Production.

Abstract

Twenty-four mature newly freshened Nubian goats were selected from the flock of the Animal 
Production Research Center (Kuku) and were divided into two equal groups based on live weight 
and age and assigned to two diets (molasses or sorghum base diets). 
Each group was further subdivided to three groups of 4 animals each according to date of birth. 
The results indicated that treatment has no effect on milk yield, milk composition, live weight 
changes and feed intake.. However the sorghum fed group maintained a record of 33% increase 
in FCM while the molasses fed group showed 10% live weight loss compared to 6% in the 
sorghum fed group. The molasses ration used in this study was found more profitable than 
sorghum ration.