Effect of Different Concentrate Roughage Ratio on Growth Performance, Carcass Characterstics and Economics of Production of Beetal Kids under Stall feeding

One twenty days feeding trial was conducted on 12 Beetal male kids of 5–6 months age and 12.44±0.38 kg average body weight. Kids were divided in to three groups of 4 each in randomized block design and subjected to 3 feeding treatments having different roughage to concentrate ratio (T₁ 50:50, T₂ 60:40 and T₃ 40:60) as per NRC,1981. The roughage consisted of maize, bajra or mixture of maize and bajra along with groundnut straw, whereas concentrates were pellets and ground maize grain. The fortnightly body weight changes and daily feed intake were recorded. At the end of experiment two kids/treatment were randomly selected and slaughtered for studying the carcass characteristics, carcass yield and dressing percentage in T₃ were significantly higher than in T₁. However, net return per kid for T₁ was highest followed by T₃ and T₂. Hence, it was concluded that Beetal kids under stall fed conditions on 50:50 roughage concentrate ratio showed optimal and economic growth performance.