1 Crop-residue supplementation of pregnant does influences birth weight and weight 1 gains of kids, daily milk yield but not the progesterone profile of Red Sokoto goats 2 3 Bunmi Sherifat MALAU-ADULI 1 , Lawrence EDUVIE 2 , Clarence LAKPINI 2 , Aduli Enoch 4 Othniel MALAU-ADULI 2 * 5 6 1 Department of Animal Science, Ahmadu Bello University, PMB 1044 Zaria, Nigeria. 7 2 National Animal Production Research Institute, Ahmadu Bello University, PMB 1096 Zaria, Nigeria. 8 9 *Present address of corresponding author: Department of Animal Breeding and Reproduction, 10 National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, 2 Ikenodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 -0901, Japan. 11 E-mail: aduli40@yahoo.co.uk , aduli@affrc.go.jp 12 Tel: +81-298-38-8640 13 Fax: +81-298-38-8606 14 15 16 17 18 19 SHORT TITLE: Liveweight, lactation and reproduction in goats 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31