1College of Animal Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, 410 128, China
2Key Laboratory for Agri-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region and Hunan Research Center of Livestock & Poultry Sciences and South Central Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, 410 125, China
Key Laboratory for Agri-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region and Hunan Research Center of Livestock & Poultry Sciences and South Central Experimental Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, 410 125, China
*Corresponding author's e-mail: zhb8236@126.com
Online published on 22 January, 2020.
This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of methionine and lysine supplementation on growth performance, meat quality and rumen fermentation parameters in growing goats. Twenty Xiangdong black goats with initial body weights of 18.1 ± 2.07 kg were used and randomly assigned into four treatments including: no additive (Control), 1.27% Methionine (T1), 2.45% Lysine-HCl (T2), 1.27% Methionine plus 2.45% Lysine-HCl (T3). After 28 days of feeding, the goats were slaughtered and samples were collected for the study. Supplementation of methionine and lysine had no effect on growth performance, meat quality, tissue chemical composition and rumen fermentation parameters. These findings suggest that the mode of supplementation of methionine and lysine used failed to detect the variation.
Goats, Growth performance, Lysine, Methionine, Meat quality, Rumen fermentation
