Effect of Management Systems of Goats on their Behaviour

This study was carried out on a flock of Baladi goat breedbelonging to the farm of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ZagazigUniversity and a private Baladi goat flock, at Zagazig suburbs.from 21 2010 to 41 2012This work included four experiments for study effect ofmanagement systems of goats on their behaviourI.-First experiment (Effect of management system on somemaintenance behviour and temperament of goat)Thirty baladi goat, apparently healthy, aged 12 - 18 months wereused. The animals were allocated randomly into two separate, equalgroups (3 males, 12 females) according to system of managementThe obtained results in this experiment indicated thefollowing:frequency and time of genital sniffing , does move on aftergenital sniffing , does urinate before move on after genitalsniffing, does turning a head and threat toward buck after genitalsniffing , flehman response, nudging and mounting revealed thatthere was a significant difference (P<0.05) in mean frequencyand time as the indoor system was higher than outdoor system.Aggressive behaviour of goats revealed that there was asignificant difference (P:::0.05) in mean frequency and time ofthreat, avoidance and butting in indoor system was increasedthan in comparison with outdoor system, but there was nosignificant difference in the frequency of flight.