Preliminary study of gender effect on the growth performance of saanen kids

Noor Syaheera, Ibrahim and Nurin Nabila, Mohd Nor and Najwa Asyikin, Muhd Nasruddin (2021) Preliminary study of gender effect on the growth performance of saanen kids. In: Malaysian Society of Animal Production Annual Conference, 03-04 Aug 2021, Cisco Webex.

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Abstract

Saanen goat appeared to be one of the best dairy goat breed, for its strong constitution to their health, high production and high adaptability to the new environment (1). Due to the high demand in Malaysia, farmer need to make sure the growth performance of the young goats is at optimum level. In this study, the growth of different gender were observed and research was conducted at UniSZA Pasir Akar Farm. There are two objectives in the present study; 1) to determine live weight of pre and post-weaning Saanen kids and 2) to measure body condition score (BCS) between male and female pre and post-weaning kids. 10 pre and post-weaning Saanen kids (purebred) represented n=5 male and n=5 female respectively used in this study.

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