Essential and guiding questions:
Text 1: “Nutrition of Meat Goats”
- How does the digestive system of a cow differ from that of a goat? How does that impact feeding strategies?
- How are the nutritional requirements for weaning or lactating goats different from non-lactating adult goats?
- What happens to excess dietary protein in a goat’s body?
- What is a method of preventing ketosis in goats?
- Describe the author’s recommended feed formulation and feeding program.
Text 2: “Formulating Rations With Pearson Square”
- What is the purpose for creating a Pearson square?
- Distinguish between the values represented in the left-hand and right-hand corners of a Pearson square.
- Which Pearson square steps would you modify to in order to mix more than two ingredients?
- Based on the author’s description, would it matter if a given ingredient was calculated in a dry or wet form?
- Using corn (10% CP) and alfalfa meal (45% CP) as ingredients, calculate the percentages of each required to feed with a 20% protein content.
Text 3: ”The effects of feeding sericea lespedeza hay on growth rate of goats naturally infected with gastrointestinal nematodes” (abstract and Figures 1-2 only)
- Using the text, infer the function of “chemical anthelminthic”.
- Why a group of goats was fed a supplement of Sericea lespedeza?
- How is growth being measured in this study? Refer to figures 1 and 2.
- Summarize the data represented on figures 1 and 2.
- What are the ultimate conclusions of this study?
