| Table 9. Animal performance and ruminal parameters a | ||||||||||
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| Wheat Pasture b | Bermudagrass c | Forage quality |
Breed | Forage qltyXbrd |
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| Item | Alpine d | Angora | Nubian | Alpine | Angora | Nubian | SEM e | P < | P < | P < |
| Initial weight, kg | 16.7 g | 16.4 g | 19.1 f | 16.3 g | 16.1 g | 19.5 f | 1.0 | - | 0.005 | - |
| Daily gain, g/d | 46.5 | 61.8 | 44.1 | 24.0 | -7.6 | 18.6 | 5.7 | 0.02 | - | 0.001 |
| Rumen pH | 6.27 | 6.50 | 6.29 | 6.24 | 6.16 | 6.36 | 0.1 | - | - | - |
| Rumen ammonia, ug/ml | 98.0 fg | 68.0 f | 129.0 g | 76.0 fg | 54.0 f | 85.0 g | 14.0 | 0.05 | 0.05 | - |
| a Adapted from Hart et al. (1993). | ||||||||||
| b Winter wheat with poloxalene mineral blocks. | ||||||||||
| c Dormant bermudagrass supplemented with 200 g/d of a 25% CP supplement. | ||||||||||
| d Two pastures in each treatment, with three male and three female goats of each breed in a pasture. | ||||||||||
| e Standard error of the mean. | ||||||||||
| f,g Means with different superscipts differ P < 0.05. | ||||||||||