TY - JOUR TT - The effects of diets containing different roughages (alfaalfa hay, barley straw, barleystrow- HCl) on digestibility and N-retention in goats AU - Çerçi, İ. Halii AU - Sarı, Mustafa PY - 1990 DA - March JF - Eurasian Journal of Veterinary Sciences JO - Eurasian J Vet Sci PB - Selçuk Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1309-6958 SP - 47 EP - 51 VL - 6 IS - 1 N2 - In this study, the effects of diets whichcontained alfaalfa hay (group 1), barley straw (group 2) orHCl- treated straw (group 3) as roughage and concentratedfeeds (50 : 50) on digestibility andN-retention on goats weredetermined. At the end of the experiment, digestibilities were70.95, 64.97 and 67.78 % for dry matter (P < 0.01), 72.48,65.59 and 67.85% for organic matter (P < 0.01), 52.54, 54.13and 57.74% for crude fiber (P > 0.05), 73.68, 78.86 and 79.34%for crude protein (P < 0.01), respectively, in the groups. Onthe other hand, the N-retention values were 5.11, 6.59 and7.54 g/day (P > 0.05), respectively. In general, the treatment ofbarley straw with HCl increased nutrient digestibility (P <0.05) andN-retention (P > 0.05). UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/eurasianjvetsci/issue//263643 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/230165 ER -