Assignment
Topic # 3115
Goat Nutrition
Emily Green
Use the goat nutrition tables to answer the following questions. Be careful to use the right chart depending on if the question asks for a nutrient concentration or daily per animal amount. You may write your answers in the space provided or on a separate sheet of paper attached to this list of questions.
1.How many pounds of dry matter does a 112 pound goat require daily for maintenance?
2.How much additional dry matter would you feed the same 112-pound goat per day for
.22 pounds of growth?
3.If you had a group of five goats that averaged 67 pounds each, how much dry matter would you daily have to feed the group to achieve a weight gain of .33 pounds a day?
(Show your work)
4.What percent of a 22-pound goat’s diet should be protein?
5.If a 179-pound goat needs .289 percent of its diet to be calcium and it eats 3.05 pounds of dry matter a day. How much actual calcium, in pounds, is the goat consuming every day. Show your work.