Feeding behaviour, digestibility, energy balance and productive performance of lactating goats fed forage-based and forage-free diets

Six lactating Saanen goats have been used in a Latin Square design to evaluate a grass-based diet (G), a hay-based diet<br />(H) and a nonforage diet (NF). On dry matter, grass and hay contributed for 55% of the diets and had 13.7 and 16.1%<br />CP, 55.4 and 49.4% NDF, 38.0 and 31.6% ADF...

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Main Authors: Gianni Matteo Crovetto, Alberto Tamburini, Luciana Bava, Luca Rapetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2010-01-01
Series:Italian Journal of Animal Science
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Online Access:http://www.aspajournal.it/index.php/ijas/article/view/228