Thirty-six male Sirohi and Sirohi x Beetal kids with an average weaning weight of 13.91 ±0.32 kg were equally allotted to four treatments: Khejri(Prosopis cineraria) leaves ad libitum (T1), 75% Khejri+25% concentrates (T2), 50% Khejri+50% concentrate (T3) and 25% Khejri+75% concentrate (T4). The ratio of actual intake of Khejri leaves and concentrate during the feeding trial of 90 days way 100 ;00; 72:28; 45:55 and 30:70 and average daily gain of kids was 18, 81, 100 and 94 g for T1, T2, T3 and T4, respectively. Except for CF, the apparent digestibilities of other nutrients of T1 were significantly lower than those of T3 and T4, however, the differences among T3 and T4 were non-significant. DMf (kg/100 kg live weight and g/kg W0.75) of kids on T1 and T2 was significantly (P< 0.05) higher than T3 and T4. Feedrequired per unit weight gain was42.0, 10.6, 8.5 and 8.7 kg for T1 to T4, respectively. Water intake of kids (L/kg feed DM) was 2, 2, 2.3, 2.6 and 3.1 for treatments 1 to 4, respectively. It was concluded that the offered combinations of 50:50::Khejri leaves: concentrate, which provided actually 45 parts of former and 55 parts of latter, gave maximal daily weight gains and higher feed conversion efficiency in weaner kids than either on any other combinations or on Khejri leaves alone.
