Comparing different maize supplementation strategies to improve resilience and resistance against gastrointestinal nematode infections in browsing goats

Novel Approaches to the Control of Parasites in Goats and Sheep. Invited editors: Hervé Hoste, Smaragda Sotiraki and Michel Alvinerie

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Table 2.

Maintenance requirements of metabolizable energy (ME; MJ/d) and metabolizable protein (MP; g/d) for 15 kg BW kids (50 g/d of BW gain, walking 10 km/d), and nutrient supply from supplement (ground maize grain fresh basis) in the respective experimental groups (including the % of the requirement covered with the supplement) (as per AFRC, 1993).

	ME	% of requirement	MP^*	% of requirement
Nutrient requirement for a 15 kg BW kid	5.96	100%	31.44	100%
Nutrient supply from maize supplement
Group I-S108 (108 g maize)	1.3	21.8	5.38	17.1
Group I-S1% (150 g maize)^**	1.76	29.5	7.27	23.1
Group I-S1.5% (225 g maize)^**	2.64	44.3	10.90	34.7
Group T-S1.5% (225 g maize)^**	2.64	44.3	10.90	34.7

For the supplement, the potential MP supply was estimated on the basis of the rumen fermentable energy and the bypass digestible protein.

^**

Quantity of maize used to calculate the nutrient supply per group.

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