Table 3.

Intake (g/d) and digestibility coefficients (g/kg) in dairy goats fed control (Megalac-R^®), sunflower (SF) and linseed (LS) treatments (n = 9 per treatment) ^1.

Parameters 2	Control	Sunflower Seed	Linseed	SEM	p-Value
Body weight, kg	50.77	50.93	50.60	2.01	0.993
Body weight change, g/d	−50.0	−75.0	−29.2	29.4	0.557
Intake, g/d
Grass hay	480 b	480 b	509 a	5.66	<0.001
Grass silage	243	246	243	4.99	0.862
Concentrate	558 b	570 a	544 c	0.27	<0.001
Forage:concentrate ratio	(58:42) b	(57:43) b	(59:41) a	0.01	0.001
Dry matter	1281	1297	1298	5.06	0.060
Organic matter	1188 b	1224 a	1197 b	4.62	<0.001
Crude protein	149 a	144 b	143 b	0.62	<0.001
Rumen degradable protein	71.3 a	68.8 b	66.6 c	0.41	<0.001
Ether extract	65.7 a	59.1 b	49.3 c	0.16	<0.001
Neutral detergent fiber	540.7 b	579 a	577 a	2.56	<0.001
Acid detergent fiber	254 b	279 a	276.3 a	1.42	<0.001
Acid detergent lignin	72.3 c	85.2 a	84.3 b	0.23	<0.001
Ca	8.13 a	4.37 b	4.23 c	0.03	<0.001
P	5.03 b	5.50 a	4.83 c	0.02	<0.001
Metabolizable energy, Mcal/ d	3.20 a	3.13 b	3.03 c	0.02	<0.001
Net energy of lactation, Mcal/ d	2.03 a	2.00 a	1.90 b	0.01	<0.001
Fatty acids, g/d
C16:0	21.3 a	7.07 b	6.83 c	0.04	<0.001
C18:0	2.07 a	1.90 b	1.83 c	0.01	<0.001
C18:1n 9c	20.2 a	20.0 b	10.8 c	0.02	<0.001
C18:2 n6	13.2 c	20.7 a	13.3 b	0.04	<0.001
C18:3 n3	5.37 b	5.37 b	14.9 a	0.04	<0.001
∑SCFA	23.9 a	8.97 b	8.67 c	0.04	<0.001
∑PUFA	38.8 a	14.3 b	14.2 b	0.09	<0.001
Digestibility (g/kg)
Dry matter	659	637	626	12.6	0.205
Organic matter	689	666	648	11.8	0.075
Neutral detergent fiber	650	617	619	16.6	0.314
Acid detergent fiber	592	545	564	25.1	0.460
Acid detergent lignin	340	410	375	33.6	0.361

^{a, b, c} Different letters indicate significant differences (p < 0.05). ¹ Values are expressed as mean. ∑SCFA = (C16:0 + C18:0) and ∑PUFA = (C18:2 + C18:3). ² Calculated from NRC [13]. SEM = standard error of the mean.