The current study was aimed to evaluate four years’ (2012-2015 E.C) Konso goat growth and reproduction performances reared under on-station level. About 318 (male = 150 and female = 168) goats were employed. Sex, birth months and years were considered as fixed factors on birth, weaning, six months, nine months and yearling weights. Average daily weight gain, kid mortality, litter size and kidding intervals were used for the reproduction performance evaluation. Means were separated by using Duncan multiple range test and frequency by SPSS (20) software. The overall means for birth, weaning, six months, nine months and yearling weights (kg±SE) were 2.63±0.02, 11.23±0.16, 12.81±0.11, 15.34±0.04 and 16.93±0.07, respectively. The current findings revealed that almost all body weight categories were significantly affected (P<0.05) by sex, birth months and year. The mean pre and post-weaning average daily weight gain (ADWG) g day-1 were 95.51±1.23 and 17.95±2.12, respectively. Males showed significant (P<0.05) pre-weaning ADWG than females whereas the reverse was true for post-weaning ADWG. Almost all kids born were single type and kidding interval (KI) was 368.67 ± 29.79 days. About 17.61% kid mortality was detected at station. Growth and reproduction performances obtained under government managed station were showed lower performances compared with other on-farm goat performances reported by the different scholars. Therefore, further performance evaluation is needed under similar on-station level

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An overall means for birth, weaning, six months, nine months and yearling weights (kg) were 2.63, 11.23, 12.81, 15.34 and 16.93, respectively. Almost all body weight categories were affected by sex, birth months and year. The mean pre-weaning weight ADWG g day-1 was higher than post-weaning. Males showed significant (P<0.05) pre-weaning ADWG than females whereas the reverse was true for post-weaning ADWG. Almost all kids born throughout the years were single type and an average kidding interval of the does’ was 368.67 days. Finally, about 17.61% kid mortality was detected in station. Growth and reproduction performances obtained under government managed station showed lower performances compared with similar breed at on-farm level reported by the scholars. Therefore, further performance verification is needed under similar government stations

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Dereje Dea, Ermias Eramo, Anwar Seid and Deribe Gemiyo (2024). On-station Performance of the Konso Goat in Konso zone, South Ethiopia. International Journal on Emerging Technologies, 15(1): 30–34.