|
Study design
The three different diets were planned as follows. The diets are arranged so that after 60 days each goat on each diet was to have received the same overall amounts of hay, calliandra and maize.
- Grass hay supplemented with 100g maize bran plus 100g Calliandra to form the control diet (diet C) given daily over 60 days.
Experimental design
|
Goats
|
Pre-
experimental period
|
Experimental period
|
Patterns of feeding
|
|
|
(15 days)
|
Day
1 - 30
|
Day
31 - 60
|
|
|
1 - 10
|
C
|
C
|
C
|
Supplemented with 100g
calliandra throughout experimental period
|
|
11 - 20
|
C
|
A
|
D
|
Supplemented with 200 g
calliandra in first 30 days only
|
|
21 - 30
|
C
|
B
|
B
|
Supplemented with 200 g
calliandra for every alternate 5-day periods
|
|
