Two metabolism trials by 6 Korean Native Female Goats, aged about two years old, were conducted by the two 3×3 latin square design to study the voluntary intake of feed and utilization of total dietary nitrogen.
The experimental feeds used were 1) ...
Two metabolism trials by 6 Korean Native Female Goats, aged about two years old, were conducted by the two 3×3 latin square design to study the voluntary intake of feed and utilization of total dietary nitrogen.
The experimental feeds used were 1) sun cured Acacia leaf and 2) the pellet composed of 21% barley, straw meal, 0.5% urea, and 71% concentrates as shown in the Table 1.
The first trial was designed to feed the pellet as a basal to which the sun cured Acacia leaf was supplemented, while the second was to alter the basal and the supplementation; Acacia leaf as the basal and the pellet as the supplementation.
The results obtained were summarized as follows;
1) The pellet supplementaion to the basal diet of Acacia leaf resulted in an increased D. M. intake and could retard the live weight reductions which were shown by the goats fed the pellet as a basal feed.
2) The goats fed Acacia leaf alone were gained their weights by about 446 g/day whilst the animal fed the pellet alone lost weights at the rate of 1520g/day.
3) The digestibility of D. M. O. M. and total nitrogen of the sun cured Acacia leaf were determined to be 45.2, 47.7 and 39.6%, respectively.