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CONTENTS:

SECTION ONE: Introduction

SECTION TWO: The goat industry

SECTION THREE: Goat products

SECTION FOUR: The need for information on the nutrition of the goat

SECTION FIVE: Composition of Products

SECTION SIX: Body and carcase

SECTION SEVEN: Milk

SECTION EIGHT: Fibre

SECTION NINE: Digestive Physiology

SECTION TEN: Digestibility

SECTION ELEVEN: Rumen ammonia and rate of digestion

SECTION TWELVE: Rate of passage and rumen volume

SECTION THIRTEEN: Conclusions

SECTION FOURTEEN: Feed Intake

SECTION FIFTEEN: Introduction

SECTION SIXTEEN: Feeding behaviour

SECTION SEVENTEEN: Grazing

SECTION EIGHTEEN: Species comparisons : stall-feeding, minimum selection

SECTION NNETEEN: Published estimates of feed intake by goats

SECTION TWENTY: Seasonal effects

SECTION TWENTY ONE: Water intake

SECTION TWENTY TWO: Conclusions and recommendations

SECTION TWENTY THREE: Energy

SECTION TWENTY FOUR: Efficiencies of utilization of metabolisable energy

SECTION TWENTY FIVE: Feeding level corrections for ME intake

SECTION TWENTY SIX: Requirements for maintenance

SECTION TWENTY SEVEN: Requirements for activity

SECTION TWENTY EIGHT: Requirements for growth

SECTION TWENTY NINE: Requirements for pregnancy

SECTION THIRTY: Requirements for lactation and associated live-weight changes

SECTION THIRTY ONE: Requirements for gains in body energy in lactating goats

SECTION THIRTY TWO: Protein

SECTION THIRTY THREE: Energy supply for microbial synthesis in the rumen

SECTION THIRTY FOUR: Feed nitrogen degradability

SECTION THIRTY FIVE: Apparent efficiency of conversion of degradable dietary nitrogen into microbial nitrogen

SECTION THIRTY SIX: Microbial nitrogen yield in the rumen

SECTION THIRTY SEVEN: Proportion of microbial crude protein (MCP) present as microbial true protein (MTP)

SECTION THIRTY EIGHT: Absorbability of amino acids (AA) in the small intestine

SECTION THIRTY NINE: Digestibility of undegraded feed protein

SECTION FOURTY: Efficiency of utilisation of absorbed amino acid nitrogen by ruminants

SECTION FOURTY ONE: Requirements for maintenance

SECTION FOURTY TWO: Requirements for lactation

SECTION FOURTY THREE: Requirements for growth

SECTION FOURTY FOUR: Requirements for fibre

SECTION FOURTY FIVE: Requirements for pregnancy

SECTION FOURTY SIX: Requirements for live-weight change in lactating goats

SECTION FOURTY SEVEN: Minerals and Vitamins

SECTION FOURTY EIGHT: Mineral composition of body tissues, milk and fibre

SECTION FOURTY NINE: Calcium and phosphorus

SECTION FIFTY: Magnesium

SECTION FIFTY ONE: Sodium, potassium and chloride

SECTION FIFTY TWO: Copper

SECTION FIFTY THREE: Requirements for other trace elements

SECTION FIFTY FOUR: Requirements for vitamins

SECTION FIFTY FIVE: Production

SECTION FIFTY SIX: Rearing kids to weaning

SECTION FIFTY SEVEN: Nutrition of the dairy goat

SECTION FIFTY EIGHT: Nutrition of fibre goats

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