02309naa a2200313 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400290006010000260008924500960011526000090021152014710022065000210169165000160171265000160172865000170174465000150176165000150177665000130179165000160180465000120182065000120183265300240184465300240186870000130189270000120190570000130191777300650193015241812023-07-31       1990    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 a10.1079/bjn199000642DOI1 aSANZ SAMPELAYO, M. R.  aBody composition of goat kids during sucking. Voluntary feed intake.h[electronic resource]  c1990  aThe body composition of thirty-eight Granadina goat kids was measured. Six animals were slaughtered at birth while the remainder were kept individually at an environmental temperature of 24k2? and a relative humidity of 60 & 5 YO. They were given goat?s milk or a milk-substitute at two planes of nutrition until 15 or 30 d of age and then slaughtered. The goat?s milk and milk-substitute contained 2604 and 222.0 g digestible protein/kg and 23.23 and 20.85 MJ metabolizable energylkg respectively. Voluntary feed intake as metabolizable energy was a function of metabolic body-weight (kg W0775), equivalent to 2.42 and 2.44 times the energy requirement for maintenance for goat?s milk- and milk-substitute-fed animals respectively. There was a high degree of correlation between the empty-body concentration of dry matter, fat and energy and empty-body-weight (P &lt 0001) or animal age (P &lt O.OOl), and between body-weight and animal age (P &lt 0.001). The relationships between empty-body composition and emptybody-weight were independent of type of milk or plane of nutrition. In contrast relationships between empty-body composition or empty-body-weight and animal age were affected by the type of milk and, over all, by the plane of nutrition. All these results show that in these animals any body-weight will have a similar composition, but it will be reached earlier or later depending on dietary regimen and always with the limitation of voluntary intake.  aBody composition  aBody weight  aFeed intake  aKids (goats)  aMetabolism  aPhysiology  aSuckling  aAleitamento  aCabrito  aCaprino  aAppetite regulation  aComposicao corporal1 aRUIZ, I.1 aGIL, F.1 aBOZA, J.  tBritish Journal of Nutritiongv. 64, n. 3, p. 611-617, 1990.