Table 1.
Ingredients, chemical, and nutritive composition of goat kids’ diets.
| Item | Diet 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Co | TOC | TCC | TOC+CC | |
| Diet ingredients (on DM basis) 2 | ||||
| Oat hay (g/kg TD) | 508 | 427 | 466 | 456 |
| Barley (g/kg CD) | 390 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Olive cake (g/kg CD) | 0 | 350 | 0 | 150 |
| Cactus cladodes (g/kg CD) | 0 | 0 | 300 | 150 |
| Faba beans (g/kg CD) | 590 | 630 | 680 | 680 |
| Vitamin-mineral supplement (g/kg CD) | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| Chemical composition of diet | ||||
| Dry matter (DM; g/kg CM) | 885 | 887 | 292 | 435 |
| Ash (g/kg DM) | 47 | 47 | 77 | 62 |
| Crude protein (CP; g/kg DM) | 140 | 155 | 150 | 154 |
| Ether extract (EE; g/kg DM) | 35 | 60 | 33 | 44 |
| Neutral detergent fiber (NDF; g/kg DM) | 446 | 480 | 456 | 467 |
| Acid detergent fiber (ADF; g/kg DM) | 273 | 328 | 276 | 300 |
| Metabolizable energy (ME; MJ/kg DM) | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 |
| Forage unit for meat (FUMeat/kg DM) | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| Digestible proteins in the intestines (DPI; g/kg DM) | 75 | 63 | 69 | 67 |
1 Co: control diet; TOC: diet with 35% of olive cake; TCC: diet with 30% of cactus cladodes; TOC+CC: diet with 15% of olive cake and 15% of cactus cladodes. 2 TD: total diet; CD: concentrate diet; CM: crude matter.