Water, Vitamins, Minerals and Dietary Needs for Goats a Simple Guide by Felicity McCullough

Water, Vitamins, Minerals and Dietary Needs for Goats a Simple Guide by Felicity McCullough

Author:Felicity McCullough
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781781650493
Publisher: Theoklesia, LLC
Published: 2012-09-23T06:00:00+00:00


The type of volatile fatty acid that is produced in the rumen can be manipulated by the amount of fibre in the diet. Feed rich in fibre are converted to propionic acid by the microbes in the rumen.

The digestibility of the feed also depends on fibre; the more fibre, the less digestible the feed. It can be measured by two different methods: acid detergent fibre and neutral detergent fibre.

Requirements For Production

All living things have nutritional requirements. This has been studied for many, many years and a number of tables have been drawn up and revised.



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