Authors :
Niel L. Ningal
Volume/Issue :
Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 6 - June
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DOI :
10.38124/IJISRT20JUN280
Abstract :
Three (3) female (rumen-cannulated goats)
weighting 27.33±1.53 kg were housed in individual
elevated metabolism stalls provided with 30%
concentrate in the morning based on feed requirements
(3% of their body weight (BW) dry matter (DM) basis)
of the animals. Ad libitum feeding of napier grass
follows thereafter. Clean drinking water were made
available all the times in the respective animal watering
troughs.
All data were collected sequentially in every cycle
of the study. There were 7 days lag period in every cycle
for the animals to return to each natural state. On the
8
th day of every cycle animals were given different
dietary treatment. Voluntary feed intakes were
recorded for 3 days. This was done on the 11th to 13th
day of feeding trial (3 days after treatment).
The following were data collected, daily roughage
dry matter intake (g/ kg metabolic body weight), daily
concentrate feed intake (g DM/kg MBW) and daily
total feed dry matter intake (g DM/ kg MBW).
All data collected showed no significant difference
(P > 0.05) among treatment means was observed. This
implies that supplementing 3 to 5% dietary fats from
two different sources (VCO and Lard) in ruminant diet
do not influence the roughage, concentrate and total
feed intake of mature female goats.
Three (3) female (rumen-cannulated goats)
weighting 27.33±1.53 kg were housed in individual
elevated metabolism stalls provided with 30%
concentrate in the morning based on feed requirements
(3% of their body weight (BW) dry matter (DM) basis)
of the animals. Ad libitum feeding of napier grass
follows thereafter. Clean drinking water were made
available all the times in the respective animal watering
troughs.
All data were collected sequentially in every cycle
of the study. There were 7 days lag period in every cycle
for the animals to return to each natural state. On the
8
th day of every cycle animals were given different
dietary treatment. Voluntary feed intakes were
recorded for 3 days. This was done on the 11th to 13th
day of feeding trial (3 days after treatment).
The following were data collected, daily roughage
dry matter intake (g/ kg metabolic body weight), daily
concentrate feed intake (g DM/kg MBW) and daily
total feed dry matter intake (g DM/ kg MBW).
All data collected showed no significant difference
(P > 0.05) among treatment means was observed. This
implies that supplementing 3 to 5% dietary fats from
two different sources (VCO and Lard) in ruminant diet
do not influence the roughage, concentrate and total
feed intake of mature female goats.
