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. 2022 Nov 7;101:skac370. doi: 10.1093/jas/skac370

Table 4.

Daily energy partitioning (kJ/kg of BW0.75) of Murciano-Granadina goats (n = 10) during late-lactation according to the type of diet

Diet2
Item1 CON POS SEM P-value
DMI, g/kg of BW0.75 110 107 1.1 0.250
GEI 1,818 1,782 17.8 0.327
Efeces 503 462 26.5 0.455
DE 1,315 1,320 30.8 0.938
Eurine 35 43 2.4 0.042
ECH4 93 84 2.1 0.035
MEI 1,187 1,193 30.3 0.928
HP 688 671 8.6 0.398
E milk 449 503 14.0 0.045
REbody 50 19 33.0 0.615
kls 0.66 0.66 0.0 0.856
kl 0.64 0.66 0.0 0.050
% GEI
DE 72 74 0.7 0.727
ME 65 66 0.7 0.888
HP 38 37 0.4 0.116
E milk 25 28 0.3 0.039
REbody 3 1 0.0 0.045
MJ/kg of DM
GE 16.6 16.7 0.17 0.683
DE 12.0 12.3 0.12 0.376
ME 10.8 11.1 0.11 0.112
NEL 4.1 4.7 0.04 0.041

1GEI, gross energy intake; Efeces, energy losses in feces; Eurine, energy losses in urine; ECH4, energy losses in methane; MEI, metabolizable energy intake; HP, heat production; Emilk, recovered energy in milk; REbody, energy retention (REbody = MEI − HP − Emilk); kls, ME efficiency for milk production according to INRA (2018); kl, ME efficiency for milk production; DE, digestible energy.

2CON, control; POS, postbiotic.