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BIO Web Conf.
Volume 139, 2024
International Scientific and Practical Conference “AGRONOMY – 2024” (AgriScience2024)
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Article Number | 11001 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Feed Production, Feeding of Farm Animals and Feed Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202413911001 | |
Published online | 15 November 2024 |
Development of methods for reducing feed costs when growing young goats
1 Krasnodar Research Centre for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Znamensky, Krasnodar, Russia
2 Kuban State Agrarian University named after I.T. Trubilin, Krasnodar, Russia
* Corresponding author: 4806144@mail.ru
Research was conducted to improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of growing young goats in the first three months of life by using cheaper whole milk replacers (WMR) and sprouted cereals with increased biological value in the diet. The work was carried out on kids of the Saanen dairy breed, during the suckling period, in the first three months of life in the peasant farm of M.V. Myakotin and in the private farm of V.N. Kosenko. For germination, we used grain of the Bezostaya-1 wheat variety and the Moskovsky 21 barley variety. The seed germination was 98%. The kids of the two groups received the same amount of roughage (hay) and succulent feed from birth to three months of age. The first group received 64 kg of whole goat milk for the entire period and 14.3 kg of compound feed. The second group received 13.74 kg of dry whole milk replacer, 7.15 kg of compound feed, and 28.6 kg of wheat and barley sprouts. When the goats of the first group were raised on milk and the second group on milk replacer and sprouts up to three months of age, the live weight at three months of age was 11.40±0.06 kg, and the second group - 12.06±0.10 kg, i.e. significantly more by 0.56 kg or 4.9% (P<0.001). The cost of feed required to raise one goat raised on milk is 10,014.9 rubles, and for those raised on milk replacer with the addition of grain sprouts - 3,228.2 rubles, which is 3.1 times cheaper.
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