What are the nutritional requirements for goats during the maintenance, gestation, and lactation periods?
Maintenance
Gestation
Lactation
The nutritional requirements for maintenance are only to sustain the animal without gaining or losing weight and to cover its minimum activity needs.
The nutritional requirements for gestation involve the normal development of the fetus, the preparation of the mammary gland for the new lactation period, and the production of colostrum.
The nutritional requirements for lactation correspond to those necessary to produce milk, and they increase in relation to the amount of milk produced and the fat content it contains.