A study was conducted to evaluate the productive performance of West African Dwarf (WAD) does and SAVANNA BROWN GOAT (SBG) does reared under the traditional management system in Makurdi, Benue State Nigeria, between March and June, 2015. Data on some productive indices such as age at first kidding, kid mortality rate were collected. Other parameters studied were types of feed supplement, medication and management system. A total of 60 WAD and 60 SBG farms were surveyed. Proximate analysis of feed supplement was carried out. Data was express as percentage and one way ANOVA. The result shows that kidding rates of WAD does was low 97.2 % as compared to SBG 68.9 % (P>0.05). Similarly, age at first kidding for WAD was 365 days and SBG does 3600 days were not significantly different (P>0.05) whereas kid mortality was (4.4% and 3.4%) and (7.3% and 3.7%) for WAD and SBG does, respectively. The mortality rate at birth were significantly different (P0.05) except for triplet (P
Key words: WAD does,SBG does, traditional goat management system, Benue State and productive performance .
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