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Nitrogen metabolism in indigenous Malawi goats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

L. Reynolds
L. Reynolds
Affiliation:
University of Malawi, Bunda College of Agriculture, Box 219, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Summary

Four mature castrate Malawi goats, mean live weight 29·66 kg, were offered diets of poor quality Rhodes grass hay, or hay plus a concentrate comprising either maize bran or maize bran-cotton seed cake mixed in varying proportions, so that N intake varied from 4·76 to 20·81 g/day in a series of four metabolism trials.

By extrapolation metabolic faecal N loss was estimated to be 9·94 g/kg faecal D.M. and that of endogenous urinary N to be 0·121 g/kg W0·75. The daily maintenance requirement for nitrogen was shown by a factorial method to be 0·682 gN/kg W0·75, and by use of regression equations to be 0·688 g N/kg W0·75 or 0·314 g apparent digestible N/kg W0·75. The mean daily requirement was 8·8 g N, with a mean apparent digestibility of N of 43·4%, and a true digestibility of 80·0%.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 96 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 347 - 351
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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