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J. Duhok Univ. Vol.13, No.1, (Agri. And Vet. Sciences) Pp 90-93, 2010
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THE ECONOMIES OF GOATS AND MERIZ KIDS MANAGED
UNDER DIFFERENT FEEDING SYSTEMS
KAMAL NOMAN DOSKY and REZGAR MOSTAFA MOHAMMED
Dept. of Animal Production ,College of Agriculture, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region-Iraq
(Received: April 28, 2010; Accepted for publication: August 1, 2010)
ABSTRACT
The objective of this study was to assess the economic benefit of kids of goat and Meriz managed under different
feeding systems by using partial budget analysis. Twelve weaned kids from each of Meriz and native goat were
divided into three different feeding systems (intensive, semi-intensive and extensive) for 90 days at the animal farm of
the College of Agriculture, University of Duhok.
A higher return ID (4759.22 and 5884 ) with marginal return (80.2%) and (58.8%) was achieved by Meriz and
goat raised under semi-intensive systems compared with those managed under both intensive and pasture systems.
The results revealed that goat raised under intensive system create losses compared with those raised either semiintensively
or on pasture. Also, the present results indicate that Meriz raised intensively and semi-intensively
significantly gained more weight than those raised extensively. However, the differences in gain in weight were not
significant among different systems in goats.
KEY WORDS: feeding system, Meriz, goat, partial budget analysis.
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INTRODUCTION
oats are well adapted to the
environmental and limited feed and
utilize marginal land to produce high protein
products (Kadim et al. 2003). The local goats
with a population of 1.6 million head (FAO,
2000) are important livestock species in Iraq;
they can play important role for the provision of
meat and milk, particularly under the agricultural
systems prevailing in the country (Alkass and
Juma, 2005).
Since no information is available on the
effect of different production system and breed
of goat on the feasibility of rearing the animal,
therefore this work was conducted to investigate
the economic benefit of goats and Meriz
managed under different feeding systems.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Twelve weaned kids (three months old) from
each of Meriz and native Goat with an average
initial weight 11.7±0.47 and 12.10±0.37 kg,
respectively managed under three feeding
system (intensive, semi intensive and pasture)
were used in this study. Kids from each breed of
first group were kept in individual boxes and had
ad libitum access to concentrate (ingredients
composition Barley 53%, Wheat bran 25%,
Soybean meal 15%, Wheat straw 6%, Salts
0.5%, Limestone 0.5% and Vitamins 0.5% ) and
contained 16% crude protein. Drinking water
was supplied ad libitum during the experiment of
90 days. Kids of the second group (semi
intensive) was left at the pasture for the first 45
days of the experiment and then moved to the
farm to be fed a concentrate mixture ad libitum
for the rest of the experiment. The third group of
kids was freely grazed at pasture. All kids were
weighed biweekly after being fasted for 12hrs.
Partial budget analysis was used to evaluate
the economic advantage of different feeding
system. Partial budgeting is a planning and
decision-making framework used to compare the
costs and benefits of alternatives faced by a farm
business. It focuses only on the changes in
income and expenses that would result from
implementing a specific alternative. Thus, all
aspects of farm profits that are unchanged by the
decision can be safely ignored (Sarah and
Jeffery, 2002). Partial budgeting measures
profits (or losses) which are the net benefits or
difference between gains and losses for the
proposed change. Gains include added returns
and reduced costs, losses include added costs
and reduced returns. The method entails
calculating net return (NR), i.e. the amount of
money left when total variable costs (TVC) are
subtracted from total returns (TR):
NR = TR – TVC
Total variable costs include the costs of all
inputs that change due to the change in