Abstract
The aim of the research is to determine the effectiveness of non-traditional feed additives in the rearing of young goats. To conduct the scientific and economic experiment, three groups of young goats were formed. Average daily rations of young goats met the feeding requirements in terms of exchange energy, dry matter, crude protein, except digestible protein, copper, and cobalt. The data analysis of live weight dynamics showed that there was no significant difference between the groups of animals at the beginning of the experiment. However, the animals of the experimental groups that consumed feed additives exceeded the live weight of goats from the control group starting from the age of 6 months. Upon reaching the age of 6 months, the animals from the control group were inferior in live weight to the goats of the experimental groups by 3.51% and 4.39%, at 8 months - by 3.72% and 6.69%, at 10 months - by 3.61% and 6.89% (P> 0.95), and at the age of 12 months - by 3.59% and 7.78%, respectively (P> 0.99). Data analysis of the average daily gains of the experimental animals showed the superiority of the goats of the experimental groups over the control group in terms of growth intensity. Animals of the experimental groups surpassed animals of the control group in terms of average daily gains of live weight at the age of 4-6 months by 20.93% and 25.58%, in the period of 6-8 months - by 4.89% and 19.52%, at 8-10 months - by 2.78% and 8.33%, and in the period of 10-12 months of age by 3.46% and 17.11%, respectively. Thus, application of non-traditional feed additives in rations of goats contributes to improvement of growth and development parameters without negative affect on the body.
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