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Effect of Methionine supplementation of the diet on growth of hoof horn and mohair in Angora goats
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2021
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Lameness is a major welfare problem in farm animals. Lesions of the hoof arising from poor growth of hoof horn in dairy cows has been associated with inadequate keratinisation (Kempson and Logue, 1993). The sulphur amino acid cystine is an important component of hard keratins in sound hoof horn and hair fibre and is required in a quantity proportionately larger than that needed for most other body tissues. Cystine may be derived, in ruminants, directly from microbial and food protein or synthesised post-absorptively from methionine in the transulphuration pathway particularly in the liver. The objective of present study was to investigate the relative responsiveness of both hoof horn and mohair to methionine supplementation of the diet.
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