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The effects of replacing the soyabean cake in a predetermined feed formula with rape seed cake were studied over the course of 90 days in the Gorkha district of Nepal. The replacement levels ranged from 0% to 33.33%, 66.66% to 100%. Twenty young local Khari male goats, aged 5-6 months, were chosen at random and assigned in a CRD design with four treatments and five replications. Four types of feed formula were prepared and fed to young male goats, each with 1.5% concentrate of their body weight (BW; BW taken fortnightly and amount fed calculated on 1.5% BW basis) and an ad lib amount of Tanki (Bauhinia purpurea) fodder. The effects of diet on feed intake, average daily gain, and total body weight were not statistically similar (P>0.05). The results showed that soyabean cake could be substituted from rapeseed cake in Tanki (Bauhinia purpurea) fodder-based diets in growing goat diets with no negative effects on body weight gain as well as feed intake. In parallel, incorporating local available fodder (Bauhinia purpurea) in ad lib with rapeseed cake could have better nutrition as well as better overall production parameters of young goats with higher economic possibilities. |
