Growth performance and rumen development in Malabari kids reared under different production systems.

In order to investigate the effect of rearing systems on growth and rumen development in Malabari male kids, 14 pre-weaned Malabari male kids of uniform morphological characters were randomly divided into two equal groups as T and T. Both the groups were reared intensively for 12 weeks whereby kids under T group were allowed to suckle their dams and provided green grass ad libitum. The kids under T were weaned at the age of 7 days and provided formulated semi-solid broiler goat concentrate diet through the feeding bottle and were not offered any grass/roughage.