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    Assessment of the alternative options of goat raising in Balaoan, La Union
    (Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University - North La Union Campus, 2011-03) Labatete, Jerlyn O.
    According to Tinasas (2009), a farmer must be open to new technologies and continue to learn improved production and marketing his products. This study was conducted to assess the preferred technology options in improving goat production in terms of inventory, weight at birth and maturity, percent morbidity and percent mortality and profit in six barangays of Balaon, La Union, namely: Bungol, Calliat, Tallipugo, Sinapangan, Bulbulala and Pantar Sur, with 13 cooperators who were recipients of the Department of Labor and Employment-assistance grant. Frequency counts, percentage, mean, rank and T-test analysis were used to describe the data gathered. The result of the study reveals that majority of the goat raisers were farmers and they were backyard goat raisers. The goat herd consisted of native does and upgraded bucks. Rice and tobacco were the main crops grown by the cooperators. The goat raisers sold their animals primarily for slaughter. Majority of the cooperators provided a housing for their goats that was made out of local materials as bamboo and galvanized iron sheet. The cooperators used partial confinement in rearing their animals. The management practices done were deworming by few cooperators, record keeping, and dipping of goats. Commonly used roughage by the cooperators were pasture grass and farm by-products if available. The major production problems identified by the cooperators before the introduction of alternative options of goat raising were the seasonality of feeds and lack of quality breeders. Hence, the alternative options that they had applied in this study were upgrading, stall feeding, provision of vitamins, tree leaves supplementation concentrate supplementation, dipping to control external parasites and deworming. Based from the results of this study, the technology options increased numerically the inventory of the goat farm, weight of kids, matured weight, profit and reduced mortality and morbidity of goats. However, t-test analyses revealed insignificant results.