The aim of the experiment was to study the effect of feeding system on meat quality characteristics of Small East African (SEA) goats and their crosses with Norwegian (SEA×N) goats finished under small scale farming conditions. Twenty four castrated goats at the age of 18 months with live body weight of 16.7±0.54 kg from each breed (SEA and SEA×N) were distributed in a completely randomized design in a 2×3 factorial arrangement (two breed, and three dietary treatments). The dietary treatments were; no access to concentrate (T0), 66% access to ad libitum concentrate allowance (T66) and 100% access to ad libitum concentrate allowance with 20% refusal (T100) and the experimental period was for 84 days. In addition, all goats were allowed to graze for 2 hours daily and later fed grass hay on ad libitum basis.

Daily feed intakes were recorded for all 84-days of experiment after which the animals were slaughtered. Feed intake of T100 animals was 536 g/d, which was 183 g/d higher than that of T66 group. Supplemented goats had significantly (p0.05) for dressing percentage and carcass conformation among supplemented goats except fatness score, total fat depots and carcass fat which increased (p. INTRODUCTION The demand for quality meat in Tanzania is growing due to expanding markets composed of tourism, mining industries, expatriates as well as increased income and purchasing power of the society (). The importance of goat farming has increased due to their fast economic return. Goats provide more meat and milk per unit live weight per year than other large ruminants.

Goat production in tropical countries involves grazing on natural pastures whose availability and quality is highly variable. Moreover, these animals produce poor carcasses of low quality meat (low carcass weight, poor conformation and tenderness). Nutrition and management are considered crucial in determining the quantity, quality and economics of meat production (). Although there is now a considerable number of a published research on indigenous types of small ruminants in tropical areas of Africa, much of the published work has the disadvantage of having been carried out under controlled conditions at research stations and the results may not reflect the actual situation of small scale production systems prevailing in rural areas.

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Data on station experimentation with animals fed on low quality roughage show improved performance and satisfactory fattening performance for both Small East African (SEA) and crossbred goats when they are supplemented with concentrate feeds (;; ). However how these goats will perform in fattening dietary regime under small scale farming conditions in Tanzania is yet to be documented. However there are no studies, focusing on meat quality attributes of goats in connection with feeding and post slaughter handling of carcasses.