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Review
. 2023 Jul 26;13(15):2420.
doi: 10.3390/ani13152420.

Physical, Metabolic, and Microbial Rumen Development in Goat Kids: A Review on the Challenges and Strategies of Early Weaning

Mahmoud M Abdelsattar  1   2 , Wei Zhao  1   3 , Atef M Saleem  2 , Ahmed E Kholif  4 , Einar Vargas-Bello-Pérez  5   6 , Naifeng Zhang  1
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Physical, Metabolic, and Microbial Rumen Development in Goat Kids: A Review on the Challenges and Strategies of Early Weaning

Mahmoud M Abdelsattar et al. Animals (Basel). .

Abstract

The digestive system of newborn ruminant functions is similar to monogastric animals, and therefore milk flows into the abomasum instead of rumen for digestion. The rumen undergoes tremendous changes over time in terms of structure, function, and microbiome. These changes contribute to the smooth transition from the dependence on liquid diets to solid diets. Goat kids are usually separated at early ages from their dams in commercial intensive systems. The separation from dams minimizes the transfer of microbiota from dams to newborns. In this review, understanding how weaning times and methodologies could affect the normal development and growth of newborn goats may facilitate the development of new feeding strategies to control stress in further studies.

Keywords: early weaning; goat kids; rumen development; weaning stress.

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