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Stall-feeding
On stall feeding, animals are confined
or semi-confined and fed cut-and carry with
available fodder resources during night time
and rainy season. Farmers believed that with
stall feeding reduces parasite infestation,
hence, lesser mortality rates due to internal
parasitism and better performance of goats.
Concentrate Supplementation & Salt Stake
Feeding supplementation with
concentrates optimizes use of locally available
feed materials such as rice and corn bran and
improves nutrition requirements of goats, thus,
goats grow faster and weigh heavier with better
performance and resistance to diseases.
Upgrading through the Use of Quality
Breeder Buck
Upgrading is one of the technology
options in breeding management to produce
goats with improved potentials for growth
rate, increase in body size, and thus increase
productivity and profitability of goat enterprise.
Superior and quality breeder bucks either
Anglo-Nubian or Boer were introduced to the
existing stocks of farmer-partners in all the
RED project focal sites.
This technology option is complemented
with basket of options on housing, stallfeeding
with tree legumes, concentrate supplementation
and strategic deworming to attain the desired
effect on the over-all performance of goats.
The results of upgrading technology option are
manifested by the initial performance of kids
born to superior quality breeder bucks infused
in the RED project sites.
Establishment of Forage Area & Pasture
Development
In Region II, the farmer-partners
adopted a communal area for pasture
establishment and development as source of
forage for cut and carry supplemental feeding.
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However, some individual farmers also
establish their own forage area or garden. It is
noted that most of them planted napier grass,
although there are abundant grasses and
multi-purpose tree species in the area as feed
resources. As observed, there is no problem
on feed resources since the farmers adopt the
food-feed-system technology
Goat Productivity Performance of Farmer-
Partners in Focal and Control Sites
Population Inventory
Table 2 shows the changes in the goat
population inventory in the focal and control
sites. With the 20 initial farmer-partners of
the RED project in Isabela, the beginning
population inventory of the focal sites started
with 144 heads of goats.
After a year of implementation, the
number of goats totaled 411 with an increase
of 267 head goats or 185% increase in the
population inventory, while an increase of 63%
was observed in the control site from the initial
inventory of 92 to 150 heads of goats involving
20 goat farmers.
In Region II, a remarkable increase of
185% in the population inventory of the focal site
from 144 to 411 head of goats while the control
site also revealed 63% in goat population. The
increase in population was due to kiddings
and the purchase of additional breeder stocks
by some farmers both in the focal and control
sites.
Doe-Level Inventory
In Region II, similarly an increase of
110% (114 does to 240 does) in the number of
does in the focal site due to additional breeders
infused by some farmer-partners to augment
their stocks aside from their own produced
breeders on farm. The control site also indicated
a slight increase of 63% (92 does to 150 does)
in the doe-level population.
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