The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of diets containing different amounts of wheat, as a partial or whole substitute for corn, on digestibility, digestive enzyme activities, serum metabolite contents and ruminal fermentation in beef cattle. Four Limousin×LuXi crossbred cattle with a body weight (400±10 kg), fitted with permanent ruminal, proximal duodenal and terminal ileal c...

A procedure for the ileostomisation of adult roosters has been described with the use of flexible silicon cannulas. Apparent ileal digestibility coefficients for dry matter (aDC DM), crude protein (aDC CP) and amino acids (aDC AA) in six diets, formulated with maize, wheat gluten, faba beans, lupins, soybean meal and casein as the main protein sources were determined in the ileostomised rooster...

The grains of nine cultivars of soybean were analyzed for total soluble sugar, reducing sugar, starch, total dietary fibre, in vitro digestibility and antinutritional factors. The total soluble sugar, reducing sugar and starch content of nine cultivars were in the range of 5.72-7.00, 0.51-1.10 and 2.80-3.25 per cent, respectively. Soybean supplied a good amount of total dietary fibre (16.6019.5...

chemical composition and metabolizable energy of three camel browsed halophyte species (atriplex leucoclada, suaeda fruticosa, seidlitzia rosmarinus) were assessed and in vitro digestibility of dm (ivdmd), om (ivomd), ndf (ivndfd), adf (ivadfd) were determined using a completely randomized design. plant samples were collected based on camel's grazing patterns during the autumn-winter grazi...

Intake and digestibility trials were conducted with sheep to evaluate the effect of adding various levels of a typical fibrous grass forage (neutral detergent fiber, NDF = 68%) to a high quality, low fiber (NDF = 22%) brassica forage. Four forage rape:orchardgrass hay diets (0, 40, 70, 100% rape content on a dry matter basis) were fed to groups of six Polled-Dorset crossbred growing wether lamb...

The objectives were to determine if the in vitro dry matter (DM) digestibility was similar by using a traditional method compared to the new DAISYII system and to determine if in vitro DM digestibility was similar for sources of inoculum from two different donor cow diets, all forage or total mixed ration. Ten feeds were digested by the traditional method, the DAISYII method with same feeds in ...

Probiotics are commonly fed to dairy cattle to improve feed efficiency and increase milk yield. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of a probiotic, (Bovamine®; Nutrition Physiology Company, LLC. Guymon, OK) consisting of Lactobacillus acidophilus (LA) and Propionibacterium freudenreichii (PF), on the in vitro digestibility of starch and neutral detergent fiber (NDF). Starch...

In this study, the effects of dietary lipid levels on growth, apparent digestibility, and blood biochemical indices of juveniles crucian carp (Carassius auratus gibelio) were evaluated. Triplicate groups of fish (average weight 2.05±0.02 g) were fed four isonitrogenous experimental diets formulated with increasing levels (13.6, 61.3, 115, and 259.8 g kg) of lipid. The weight gain (WG), specific...

Three levels of dietary P (.12%, .24% and .48% of dry matter) and three levels of roughage as ground corn cobs (25% 50% and 75% of dry matter) were fed in a 3 X 3 factorial metabolism trial, utilizing 36 crossbred (Hampshire X Columbia) intact male lambs, 6 to 9 mo of age. All diets contained cane molasses (5%), blood meal (13.5%), urea (1%), corn oil (1%) and salt (.5%). Limestone supplied sup...

The development of the yield and nutritive value of timothy (Phleum pratense L.) both in the primary growth and in the regrowth were studied at MTT Plant Production Research, a unit of MTT Agrifood Research Finland, in Rovaniemi (66°35 ́N) in 1999–2001. The dry matter yield and leaf to stem ratio were measured from the crop samples, and the contents of crude protein and organic matter digestibil...