Growth of milk replacer kids fed under three different managements

Abstract

To study the effect of 3 management systems: natural suckling (NS), ad libitum artificial feeding (ALAR) and restricted artificial feeding (RAR), 120 Canary Caprine Group's kids were assigned at random to the three different groups. The highest, weight gain was observed in animals on NS. Birth weight showed a. significant, effect on animal growth in all the treatments. The feed ratio (FR) evolution was similar for both male and female animals. FR values at the beginning of the experiment were higher than those at the end stage.