Comparable intake and digestibility of the nutrients in kids in the three groups suggested that the addition of 60 mgAs/kg diet either alone (T2) or with vitamin E (T3) had no effect on these parameters. Contrary to our observations, reduced DMI, protozoal activity and cellulose digestion were observed in goats fed 25 mg As/kg BW for 6 weeks (Biswas et al., 1998),but it may be due to use of very high (375 mg/day for 15 kg BW goat) levels of As by these workers as compared to our experiment. However, similar to our observations, no effect of As exposure on intake and digestibility of different nutrients was observed in crossbred calves fed 50 ppm arsenic in the diet for 90 days (Mishra et al., 2004) and in Muzaffarnagari ramsfed arsenic at 1 mg/kg live weight for 150 days (Pattanaik et al., 2012). It indicated that goats could sustain up to 60 ppm As in the diet without any adverse effect on digestibility and intake of different nutrients, plausibly due to inherent detoxification mechanism of the rumen microflora.