[{
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "Nutrient intake and digestibility of various winter fodders fed to Beetal goats and Lohi sheep",
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Nasrullah",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Abdullah",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Javed",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Bhatti",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Khosa",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Marghazani",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Sales",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Fiaz",
      "given": ""
    },
    {
      "family": "Ahmad",
      "given": ""
    }
  ],
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [[2015]]
  },
  "container-title": "Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences",
  "ISSN": "1018-7081",
  "volume": "25",
  "issue": "4",
  "page": "1206-1209",
  "DOI": "NA",
  "abstract": "<p>Nutrient intake and digestibility of berseem clover (<em>Trifolium alexandrium</em>), lucerne (<em>Medicago Sativa</em>) and oats (<em>Avena sativa</em>) as winter fodders were fed to female goats (<em>n</em>&nbsp;= 45, age = 720 days, body weight = 32 kg) and sheep (<em>n</em> = 45, age = 690 days, body weight = 32 kg).&nbsp; Intakes of dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fibre (NDF), acid detergent fibre (ADF), and gross energy (GE) were determined over a 30-day period.&nbsp; In addition, total tract apparent digestibility of DM, CP, NDF and ADF were measured for 5 days with 3 animals per treatment.&nbsp; Intakes of NDF and GE were higher (P&lt;0.05) with lucerne compared to berseem clover independent of animal species, and oats presented the lowest (P&lt;0.05) CP intake compared to other fodders.&nbsp; The highest (P&lt;0.05) CP digestibility was obtained with feeding of lucerne, with NDF digestibility comparable among fodders within animal species.&nbsp; With the exception of DM, intakes and digestibilities of nutrients were higher (P&lt;0.05) in goats than in sheep.</p>",
  "publisher": "Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum",
  "URL": "https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2015-JAPS-163"
}]