Performance of Finnish Landrace goat kids and lambs raised under stall-feeding conditions in Finland

Ten male Finnish Landrace goat kids and 10 male Finnish Landrace lambs raised under similar stall-feeding conditions were compared for feed intake, feed efficiency, growth rate and slaughter results. The animals were housed individually from 2 months old to slaughter in grated metal pens and offered timothy/meadow fescue hay ad libitum and a concentrate at800 g/ animal/day. In their daily ration lambs and kids received on average 14.98 and 9.55 MJ metabolizable energy (ME), 186 and 136 g crude protein (CP) and 125 and 81 g amino acids absorbed in the small intestine (AAT), respectively. Mean total dry matter (DM) intake (98 vs. 75 g/kgW 0.75 ) and mean growth rate (245 vs. 174 g animal/day) were higher for lambs than for kids. All these differences between the two species were significant (p