The effect of calcium (Ca) source and level on site of digestion of an 88% concentrate diet was tested with four 431-kg, intestine-cannulated steers in a 4 X 4 Latin square experiment. Diets, limit-fed at 1.3% of body weight, contained .25% Ca with no supplemental Ca (B), .40 or .48% Ca from addition of either .95% CaCl2-2H2O (Cl) or .65% CaCO3 (LL), or 1.11% Ca from addition of 2.5% CaCO3 (HL)...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of slow-release urea (SRU) versus feed-grade urea on ruminal metabolite characteristics in steers and DMI, gain, and G:F in growing beef steers. Experiment 1 used 12 ruminally cannulated steers (529 +/- 16 kg of BW) to monitor the behavior of SRU in the ruminal environment. Compared with feed-grade urea, SRU decreased ruminal ammonia concen...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of spray dried inulin powder from chicory roots of different origins on in vitro ruminal fermentation. For this purpose, two long-term experiments were made with the Rumen Simulation Technique (Rusitec), in which the fermentation of a mixed ration of hay (5 g/d) and concentrate (4 g/d) was compared with the fermentation of the same diet...

Ammonia plays a central role in the nitrogen metabolism of the rumen; essentially, this is due, on the one hand, to its origin from the deamination of proteins and other nitrogenous substances and from the hydrolysis of urea, and on the other hand to its use by ruminal bacteria as a source of nitrogen for growth. Ammonia is absorbed from the rumen and converted in the liver to urea, which in pa...

Emissions of ammonia, as well as other gases and particulates, to the atmosphere are a growing concern of livestock producers, the general public, and regulators. The concentration and ruminal degradability of CP in beef cattle diets may affect urinary and fecal excretion of N and thus may affect ammonia emissions from beef cattle feed yards. To determine the effects of dietary CP concentration...

Degradation of plant N in the rumen results in the formation of ammonia-N and NAN. Rumen bacteria utilise these breakdown products to synthesise their cell proteins. This study was carried out to investigate the in vivo degradation of N-labelled duckweed in the rumen and the utilisation of the degradation products by rumen bacteria. We found that duckweed protein was relatively resistant to rum...

this study was conducted to evaluate effects of rosemary essential oils (reo) on feed digestibility, blood and rumen parameters of ghezel sheep. four male sheep with average body weight 46±2 kg were used in a 4×4 latin square design. treatments composed of basal diet (control) in addition to diets containing 100 (ro100), 200 (ro200) and 400 (ro400) mg/day of reo.  sheep's fed with 4 diets ...

The aim of this work was to compare use of an o-phthaldialdehyde (OPA) colorimetric assay (OPA-C), which responds to both free AA and peptides, with an OPA fluorimetric assay (OPA-F), which is insensitive to peptides, to quantify rates of ruminal protein degradation in the inhibitor in vitro system using Michaelis-Menten saturation kinetics. Four protein concentrates (expeller-extracted soybean...

The aim of the current study was to evaluate the replacement effect of soybean meal (SBM) at different levels (0 as D1, 33 as D2, 67 as D3 and 100% as D4 based on crude protein (CP) content) by guar meal (GM) on ruminal gas production kinetics, ruminal digestibility and fermentation characteristics of a fattening diet for lambs. Three experiments were conducted. The first experiment of 144-h in...

This study evaluated the effects of seven biochar products at two levels inclusion [2.25% or 4.50% diet dry matter (DM)] on DM disappearance (DMD), cumulative gas and methane (CH 4 ) production, ammonia-nitrogen, volatile fatty acid (VFA) production from Timothy grass hay over 48 h incubation. Biochar did not affect CH (P ≥ 0.17) nor DMD ruminal fermentation 0.12). In conclusion, biochar, irres...