Bacillus amyloliquefaciens CU33 Fermented Feather-Soybean Meal Product Improves the Crude Protein Digestibility, Diarrhea Status, and Growth Performance of Goat Kids

• Published in: Animals (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 19; p. 2809
• Main Authors: Lee, Tsung-Yu, Lee, Yueh-Sheng, Wu, Chean-Ping, Chan, Kun-Wei, Chen, Kuo-Lung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 29.09.2024; MDPI
• Subjects: Antibiotics; Bacillus amyloliquefaciens CU33; Diarrhea; digestibility; feather meal–soybean meal product; Feces; Feeds; Fermentation; goat kid; growth performance; Meals; Milk; Proteins; Soybeans; Viscosity; Weaning; Taiwan; growth performance; goat kid; digestibility; Bacillus amyloliquefaciens CU33; feather meal–soybean meal product
• ISSN: 2076-2615; 2076-2615
• DOI: 10.3390/ani14192809

This study investigates the effects of replacing fish meal with fermented feather meal-soybean meal product (FFSMP) from CU33 in the starter on growth performance, relative health performance, and digestibility of Alpine goat kids. In trial 1, thirty-two Alpine goat kids (male) were randomly assigned to dietary supplementation of 2% feather meal-soybean meal mix (FSM), 2% fish meal, or replacing fish meal with 50% or 100% FFSMP (FFSMP-50 or FFSMP-100) in starter (n = 8). In trial 2, sixteen goat kids were selected after trial 1 and used in this digestion trial which began from 12 weeks old. The treatments were the same as in trial 1 (n = 4). In trial 1, the growth performance of the FFSMP groups was better than the FSM group at 0 to 10 weeks ( < 0.05). The fecal consistency index of the FFSMP-100 group was better than the FSM group at 0 to 5 weeks and 5 to 10 weeks. In trial 2, the crude protein (CP) digestibility of the FSM group decreased ( < 0.05). In conclusion, dietary supplementation with 2% FFSMP in goat kids' diets can improve the growth performance, the CP digestibility, and diarrhea status, and it can completely replace the fish meal in starter diets.