PNODNCTINE AND REPRODUCTIVE PERFORM MAR COMPARISON OF NATIVE AND SHAMI GOATS  IN SEMI INTENSIVE PRODUCTION SYSTEM

M. Idris, S.; A. Taha, S.; M. Ageel, H.

	PNODNCTINE AND REPRODUCTIVE PERFORM MAR COMPARISON OF NATIVE AND SHAMI GOATS IN SEMI INTENSIVE PRODUCTION SYSTEM
IRAQ JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE
Article 1, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 0-0
Authors
S. M. Idris; S. A. Taha; H. M. Ageel
Abstract
A study was conducted in the station of sheep and goats lies ode research shitom relatel to the State Board for Agricultural Researches for the period August 2006 to August 2007. Were 100 heads of native goats and 181 heads of shami goats imported from Cyprus subjected to this study. All animals ranged from 1.5 to 3 years old, and were fed concentrate (750 grams/head/day), consisted of barley, soybean, wheat bran, limestone and kitchen salt, and (2kg/day/head) alfalfa hay. The two groups were hand matted from August to the end of September. After delivering the first progeny, the productive traits; (birth weight, weaning weight, average daily gain and daily milk yield) and reproduction traits (fertility, kidding rate, and twinning percent) in both herds were recorded The objective of the study was to carryout a comparison between the native and Shami goats in productive and reproductive traits under semi intensive production system. The results showed that birth weight (kg); 2.10±0.62 and 2.39±0.80, weaning weight (kg); 19.47±4.00 and 20.46±5.20, and average daily gain (gm); 145±32 and 149±43, for the native and shami goats respectively, and the differences between the two genetic groups were significant (p<0.05). Milk yield for native and Shami groups were; 82±45.37 and 134±76.81 kilograms, respectively (p<0.05). The two groups differed in the reproductive traits as the fellowing: fertility; 83% and 84%, kidding rate; 1.5 and 1.7, twinning percentage; 40 and 63, for the native and shami goats, respectively. Shami goats have showed a superiority in growth and reproductive traits. This superiority could be explained as a result of genetic potentiality due to genetic improvement for a long time of shami goats, in contrast to the Iraqi goats, that, undergoing the natural selection only, and experienced no genetic improvement during a long period in the past decades. Consequently, and since it is the beginning for Shami goats in the new environment, It is expected that this breed will show better performance in the next seasons.

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