Nutrient intake, digestibility, feeding behavior, nitrogen balance, and performance of feedlot goat kids fed high-concentrate diets containing licury cake (Syagrus coronata)

• Published in: Tropical animal health and production 2022-04, Vol.54 (2), p.131-131, Article 131
• Main Authors: Silva, Willian Pereira, Santos, Stefanie Alvarenga, Cirne, Luis Gabriel Alves, dos Santos Pina, Douglas, Alba, Henry Daniel Ruiz, de Carvalho Rodrigues, Thomaz Cyro Guimarães, de Araújo, Maria Leonor Garcia Melo Lopes, Galvão, Jocasta Meira, de Oliveira Nascimento, Camila, Rodrigues, Carlindo Santos, de Carvalho, Gleidson Giordano Pinto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Alanine; Animal Feed - analysis; Animals; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Body weight; Body weight gain; Design of experiments; Diet; Diet - veterinary; Digestibility; Digestion; Dry matter; Eating; Experimental design; Feeding Behavior; Feedlots; Food intake; Goats; Goats - metabolism; Idling; Life Sciences; Nitrogen; Nitrogen - metabolism; Nitrogen balance; Nutrient balance; Nutrients; Regular Articles; Rumination; Syagrus coronata; Transaminases; Triglycerides; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; Zoology; γ-Glutamyltransferase
• ISSN: 0049-4747; 1573-7438
• DOI: 10.1007/s11250-022-03131-9

The current trial was carried out to evaluate the impacts of adding licury cake ( Syagrus coronata ) in high-concentrate diets for goat kids feedlot-finished on growth performance and metabolic parameters. Forty crossbred non-castrated Boer goat kids with approximately four months and similar initial live weights (20.15 ± 2.79 kg). The experimental design used in this study was a completely randomized, with four diets (0, 10, 20, and 30% of licury cake inclusion in a dry matter basis (DM)). Licury cake inclusion decreased nutrient intake and digestibility ( P