Dietary citrulline supplementation enhances milk production in lactating dairy goats

Table 1 Composition of nutrients in the basal diet (as-fed basis)^a

Nutrients	Content in diet
Dry matter	89.19%
Total digestible nutrients (TDN)	75.15%
Crude protein	18.13%
Lysine	0.91%
Methionine	0.26%
Crude fat	3.54%
Crude fiber	11.64%
Total calcium	0.89%
Total phosphorous (available P)	0.61% (0.27%)
Magnesium	0.30%
Sulfur	0.20%
Na	0.70%
Potassium	1.10%
Vitamin premix^b	0.1%
Mineral premix^c	0.1%
Acid detergent fiber (ADF)	13.04%
Neutral detergent fiber (NDF)	25.22%
Rumen-undegraded protein	6.01%
Rumen-degradable protein	12.12%

^aDietary ingredients were wheat middlings, corn, soybean hulls, soybean meal (48% crude protein), cottonseed meal, alfalfa, liquid binder, ground lime, sodium bicarbonate, soy oil, 1.52% salt mix, monocalcium phosphate (containing 21% phosphorus), mold inhibitor, and magnesium oxide
^bThe vitamin premix provided the following (IU/kg of the basal diet): vitamin A, 20,339; vitamin D, 4,458; and vitamin E, 66.3
^cThe mineral premix provided the following (mg/kg of the basal diet): manganese, 138.2; iron, 160.4; copper, 35.5; cobalt, 1.00; iodine, 2.08; zinc, 124.2; and selenium, 0.75

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