Different fibre sources in dairy ass’s diet: effects on milk yield and composition

Abstract

As ass’s milk is increasingly considered as an effective hypoallergenic food for infants (Carroccio et al., 2000; Muraro et al., 2002), studies on ass’s milk yield and composition are becoming more frequent in order to fulfil the rare literature references on this innovative animal production (Chiofalo et al., 2003; Doreau et al., 2002; Salimei et al., 2004).

Keywords

• donkey nutrition, dietary fibre, ass’s milk