Table 3.

Milk yield, milk main constituents, and somatic cell count of milk from goats fed the control (CTRL) and cocoa bean shell (CBS) diets^a.

Parameter	Dietary treatment		Effectsb
	CTRL	CBS	DT	SD
Milk yield (kg/head × day)	1.81	1.70	ns	ns
ECMc (kg/head × day)	1.84	1.75	ns	ns
Milk composition (g/kg)
Fat	37.37	37.05	ns	ns
Protein	32.04	33.44	ns	ns
Casein	24.76	26.01	ns	ns
Lactose	41.39	39.76	***	*
Component yield (g/head × day)
Fat	65.59	61.25	ns	ns
Protein	56.10	55.29	ns	ns
Casein	43.20	43.03	ns	ns
Lactose	74.67	68.08	†	ns
Urea (mg/dL)	48.01	38.09	***	***
SCC (×1,000 cells/mL)	942.49	1,096.37	ns	ns
FEd	0.81	0.81	ns	ns

CTRL, control diet; CBS, cocoa bean shell diet; DT, dietary treatment; SD, sampling date; ECM, energy corrected milk; SCC, somatic cell count; FE, feed efficiency.

^aTotal number of samples analyzed for each group equal to 44 (11 goats × 4 sampling days).

^bProbability: ***P ≤ 0.001; *P ≤ 0.05; ^†0.05 < P ≤ 0.10; ns, not significant (P > 0.05). The effect of the interaction between dietary treatment and sampling date (DT × SD) was not significant; therefore, significance is only presented for the main effects.

^cECM = [0.327 × milk (kg/day)] + [12.95 × milk fat (kg/day)] + [7.2 milk protein (kg/day)] (50).

^dCalculated as: ECM (kg)/dry matter intake (kg) (50).