Sabita Subedi
Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS)
Title: Comparative study of stall-feeding and pasture grazing systems of goats in smallholder farms of Shaktikhor area in the Eastern mid hills of Nepal
Biography
Biography: Sabita Subedi
Abstract
A study was conducted to identify the appropriate feeding system of goats in Shaktikhor VDC of Chitwan district in 2013. The study was divided into two parts: social study followed by biological. A household (HHs) study was conducted to collect primary information from 120 goats rearing households focusing on availability of pastureland, feed resources and prevailing management conditions of the goats production system and the next parts consisted of identifying appropriate feeding systems (full grazing system and stall feeding system) based on intestinal parasites. The research is conducted by taking season as a main factor and the feeding system (stall fed and full grazed) as a sub factor in a split- plot design. 650 fecal samples were collected in pre monsoon, 635 on early post monsoon and 580 in winter season. The analysis was done using SPSS version 16 and Microsoft Excel 2007. The results revealed that the goats adopting the grazing system shows significantly higher positivity (p<0.01) of intestinal parasites than that of stall fed goats in all season through fecal analysis. While comparing between the treatments, the early post monsoon season shows significantly higher positivity (p<0.01) of intestinal parasites than other two seasons. This result suggested that the stall-fed system is better than the grazing system in terms of parasitic infestation. So, there is need of improvement in the grazing system on the pastureland, and the use of medicine for parasites should be adopted by the farmer all-round the year especially after the cessation of the monsoon