Nutrition of Goats

1: Introduction 2: The goat industry 3: Goat products 4: The need for information on the nutrition of the goat 5: Composition of Products 6: Body and carcase 7: Milk 8: Fibre 9: Digestive Physiology 10: Digestibility 11: Rumen ammonia and rate of digestion 12: Rate of passage and rumen volume 13: Conclusions 14: Feed Intake 15: Introduction 16: Feeding behaviour 17: Grazing 18: Species comparisons : stall-feeding, minimum selection 19: Published estimates of feed intake by goats 20: Seasonal effects 21: Water intake 22: Conclusions and recommendations 23: Energy 24: Efficiencies of utilization of metabolisable energy 25: Feeding level corrections for ME intake 26: Requirements for maintenance 27: Requirements for activity 28: Requirements for growth 29: Requirements for pregnancy 30: Requirements for lactation and associated live-weight changes 31: Requirements for gains in body energy in lactating goats 32: Protein 33: Energy supply for microbial synthesis in the rumen 34: Feed nitrogen degradability 35: Apparent efficiency of conversion of degradable dietary nitrogen into microbial nitrogen 36: Microbial nitrogen yield in the rumen 37: Proportion of microbial crude protein (MCP) present as microbial true protein (MTP) 38: Absorbability of amino acids (AA) in the small intestine 39: Digestibility of undegraded feed protein 40: Efficiency of utilisation of absorbed amino acid nitrogen by ruminants 41: Requirements for maintenance 42: Requirements for lactation 43: Requirements for growth 44: Requirements for fibre 45: Requirements for pregnancy 46: Requirements for live-weight change in lactating goats 47: Minerals and Vitamins 48: Mineral composition of body tissues, milk and fibre 49: Calcium and phosphorus 50: Magnesium 51: Sodium, potassium and chloride 52: Copper 53: Requirements for other trace elements 54: Requirements for vitamins 55: Production 56: Rearing kids to weaning 57: Nutrition of the dairy goat 58: Nutrition of fibre goats