Goats were cared and handled in accordance with the Guide for theCare and Use of Agricultural Animals in Agricultural Research and Teach-ing (FASS, 1999). The trial was conducted at a family owned commercialdairy farm near Behera governorate (Egypt) and at the Laboratory of DairyAnimal Production, National Research Centre (Egypt). The farm is locatedat latitude 31◦04’02.4” N and longitude 30◦31’42.19” E. The local climateis temperate-tropic humid with summer rains and with an annual averagerainfall of 22 mm and mean annual temperature between 14 and 28◦C.