Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXVI, Issue 1
Written by Oana Diana MIHAI, Simona NICOLAE (CĂLIN), Alina-Daniela MARCU, Diana-Nicoleta RABA, Iuliana CODREANU, Emilia CIOBOTARU-PÎRVU
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of the administration of nutritional supplements on the quantity and quality of goat’s milk. For this purpose, homogeneous groups of goats from the Carpathian breed, in the middle of the lactation period (n = 10), were created, to whom were administered in food, experimentally: hemp seeds (group 2), hemp seeds and mineral supplement (group 3), flax seeds (group 4), flax seeds and mineral supplement (group 5). Milk production and milk protein and fat percentages were monitored for 20 days, and the results obtained were compared with those of the control group (group 1). The obtained results showed that in terms of milk production, there were significant increases (p<0.05) between the control group and the experimental groups (with 6.95% for group 3 and by 5.42% for group 5). Regarding the percentage of proteins, significant increases were observed in the case of groups 3 (6.06%) and group 5 (9.09%). Regarding the percentage of fat, it increased in the case of all experimental groups, the increases being 4.65% (p<0.05) for group 2, 11.62% (p<0.01) for group 3, 6.97% (p<0.05) for group 4, and 9.30% (p<0.01) for group 5.
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