THE WEIGHT PATTERNS IN KIDS
SAADAOUI FATIMA
Livestock Technical Institute of Ksar Chellala, Tiaret, 14000, Algeria.
MELIANI SAMIA *
Faculty of Nature and Life Science, Ibn Khaldoune University, Tiaret, 14000, Algeria.
GUEMOUR DJILALI
Faculty of Nature and Life Science, Ibn Khaldoune University, Tiaret, 14000, Algeria.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the weight evolution in goat’s kids raised in Tiaret, Algeria. Our study was conducted between 2016 and 2017. For this study, goat’s kids were weighted from birth until one-year-old. In this work, birth mean weight for males was about 3,16±0,58 Kg significantly (p< 0,05) higher than 2,88 ±0,50 for females, the mean weights at birth for all kids was 3,06±0,57 Kg. in this work, the kid’s sex influenced significantly the weight at birth in kids.
Keywords: Goat, kids, age, growth, weight.