Under Ranch System
- Labor extensive enterprise specializing in one or more livestock species and producing mainly live animals for slaughter.
- It is characterized by the grazing within the fixed boundaries that delimit tenure.
- It is the practice of raising farm animals in confined space.
Advantages of stall feeding
a) Stress is less compared to traditional goat farming.
b) Raised in hygienic disease-free environment.
c) Easy to produce quality of goat meat.
d) Goats are protected from severe climatic conditions.
e) Easy to monitor and regulate.
f) Control of spread of contagious disease and non-contagious disease.
g) Efficient utilization of feeds and clean water provision on time.
h) Feed conversion ratio is high.
i) Collection of manure is easy.
j) Animal will perform on optimum growth, production and reproductive potential.