Data on coat colour pigmentation and incidence of wattle were combined with production records 1407 West African dwarf goats to study their influence litter traits body weight. There was no significant (P>0.05) difference among colours for size at birth weaning Basic white coloured significantly (P <0.05) heavier one year age than the basic brown black goats. The trend that weight decreas...

a study was undertaken to determine effect of nutritional value of melon husk (mh) and palm oil slurry (pos) on quality of chevon obtained from west african dwarf (wad) goats fed finishing diets as follows: diet 1(0% mh, 0% pos); diet 2 (50% mh, 0% pos); diet 3 (0% mh, 50% pos) and diet 4 (50% mh, 50% pos), along with panicum maximum as basal diet for all dietary treatment groups. after 60 days...

Forty-eight West African Dwarf sheep and goats (twenty-four of each) with liveweights ranging from 8 to 15 kg were allotted in groups of eight to six diets containing 0%, 15%, 30%, 45%, 60% and 75% brewers’ dried grains (BDG) fed ad libitum together with 0.5 kg/head/ day fresh forage. After twenty-five weeks, all the animals were slaughtered and the carcass evaluated. Brewers, dried grains did ...