Michel Alves da Silva, Juliana Silva de Oliveira, Edson Mauro Santos, Gabriel Ferreira de Lima Cruz, Gherman Garcia Leal de Araújo, Márcia Maria Cândido da Silva, Gilberto de Carvalho Sobral, João Paulo de Farias Ramos, Paloma Gabriela Batista Gomes, Guilherme Medeiros Leite, Maria Alyne Coutinho Santos, Paulo da Cunha Torres Júnior, Arinaldo Fernandes Matias Filho
The objective of this study was to compare the indirect methods of obtaining digestibility with the direct method of total fecal collection to estimate the apparent digestibility of nutrients in sheep and goats supplemented with non-protein nitrogen. Five goats and five sheep with no defined racial pattern were used, distributed in two 5 × 5 Latin squares, with split plots, considering the diets as plots and the apparent digestibility determination methodologies as subplots. The diets were composed of buffelgrass hay and the addition, via ruminal infusion, of increasing amounts of nitrogen supplementation in order to gradually raise the CP level of the basal diet in intervals of 2% points, that is, + 2, +4, + 6 and + 8%...
April 16, 2024: Tropical Animal Health and Production