Effects of forage type on the rumen microbiota, growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality in fattening goats.

ABSTRACT: Forages fed to goats influence ruminal microbiota, and further contribute to affect growth performance, meat quality and its nutritional composition. Our objective for current study was to investigate the effects of different forages on growth performance, carcass traits, meat nutritional composition, rumen microflora, and the relationships between key bacteria and amino acids and fatty acids in the longissimus dorsi and semimembranosus muscles of goats. Boer crossbred goats were separately fed commercial concentrate diet supplemented with Hemarthria altissima (HA), Pennisetum sinese (PS), or forage maize (FG), and then slaughtered 90 days after the beginning of the experiment. Growth performances did not vary but carcass traits of dressing percentage, semi-eviscerated slaugh

SUBMITTER: Wu ZL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10172669 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature