**3. Nutrition of goats**

In juvenile ruminants, the initial three gastric compartments are underdeveloped [30] and the animal in this stage acts as monogastric where effective utilization of colostrum and milk occurs in the gut. The animal later consumes a high fibrous diet and there is an establishment of microbial population in the stomach compartment stimulating the rumen development. In some areas, the fattening protocol is adopted for the goats and fed excessive concentrates to attain earlier growth and higher quality of the carcass. *Zea mays (*maize), *Sesbania bispinosa (*janter), *Trifolium alexandrinum (*barseem), *Pennisetum Glaucum* (bajra), and *Cicer arietinum* (channa), etc. are being offered to the animals in most of the areas [31, 32]. Goat comes under the heading of browsers and is the one that put up good use of pasture land [33]. Most of the grasses that rise subsequent to the natural rain are being offered to the animals. Furthermore, soft branches of barked plants viz. Ziziphus sp. (Ber), *Acacia sp*. (Kekar), *Prosopis spicigera* (Jandi)*, Dalbergia sissoo (*Sheesham*), Cymbopogon jawarancusa* (Khawai)*, Aristida depressa* (Lamb)*, Cenchrus pennisetiformis* (Dhaman)*, Panicum antidotale* (Murat)*, Haloxylon recurvum* (Lana)*, Cymbopogon martinii* (Katran)*, Euphorbia prostrate* (Khiri)*, Leptadenia pyrotechnica* (Khip)*, Capparis deciduas* (Dele)*, Eleusine flagillif era* (Ghandeel)*,* Neslia sp. (Phel), *Crotalaria burhia* (Chag), Callotropis sp. (Ak), *Salvadora oleoides* (Jal) *and Lasiurus hirsutus* (Gorkha)*, and their* fallen leaves are being offered to the animals [34–38]. Although all the ruminants have this ability, the low-quality forages are transformed by them into products of great nutritious importance and this is due to their digestive system structure. This particular ability of grazing is related to the unique morphology of the goat gut.

#### **Figure 2.**

*Embryological development of goat.*
