Replacement of corn by cassava dregs in lambs’ diet

Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the effect of replacing corn with cassava dregs (0, 330, 660 or 1,000 g/kg on a dry matter basis) on the intake and digestibility of nutrients, feeding behavior, performance and metabolic profile of 40 non-castrated crossbred Santa Ines lambs, aged 5 months old with an average initial body weight of 20 ± 1.87 kg. Due to the lower ether extract (EE) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) content of cassava dregs, there was a quadratic effect (P 0.05), whereas the intake and rumination efficiency of the NDF showed a linear decrease (P