Efficacy of Mucor and Abisidia Treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake on Performance Characteristics of Goat *Belewu, M.A., 1 Odebisi, M.B., 2 Esan, O.T, 2 Abdulsalam, K.O., 2 Arise, A.K., Badmos, A.H.A., Liadi, M.T., Lawal, R.A., Ugbamaja, E.R and Adebayo, A.M. Microbial Biotechnology and Dairy Science Laboratory Department of Animal Production, University of Ilorin, 1 Department of Microbiology 2 Department of Home Economics and Food Science E-mail: milkyinka@yahoo.com, Tel: 234-8035817941/234-8020594079 *Corresponding author. ABSTRACT The study evaluates the efficiency of Mucor indicus and Absidia corymbifera treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake on the performance characteristics of weaner West African dwarf goats (average BW= 6.25kg). The goats (n=25) were randomly allocated to five dietary Treatments A, B, C, D and E in a Completely Randomised design model for a 56 day period. Treatments A ( Control, contained Groundnut cake as protein source); Treatment B (contained 50% Groundnut cake plus 50% Mucor indicus treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake), Treatment C (contained 50% Groundnut cake plus 50% Absidia corymbifera treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake) , Treatment D (contained 25% Groundnut cake plus 75% Mucor indicus treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake) and Treatment E (contained 25% Groundnut cake plus 75% Absidia corymbifera treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake). The results revealed higher crude protein and ether extract contents for the fungi treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake compared to the untreated cake. Conversely, the crude fibre content of the fungi treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake was lower than the untreated cake. Additionally, the crude fibre content of the fungi treated Jatropha curcas kernel cake was reduced between 20% (Mucor indicus) and 28% (Abisidia corymbifera) compared to the untreated cake. Similarly, the dry matter, crude protein, ether extract and ash INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYTOFUELS AND ALLIED SCIENCES (A Journal of the Society for the Conservation of Phytofuels and Sciences) (http://www.phytofuelsciences.com ) (ISSN 2354 1784)