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.

3. Grass hay plus 100g maize bran fed daily, and supplemented or unsupplemented with 200g calliandra per day fed over alternating periods of five days. This is represented as diet B. This was to answer the second objective.

  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

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