The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of NDF content in highly digestible grass/clover silage on particle size reduction, ruminal stratification, and selective retention in dairy heifers. The reduction in particle size from feed to feces was evaluated and related to feed intake, chewing activity, and apparent digestibility. Four grass/clover harvests (Mixtures of Lolium pere...

Label-MMAcid-Rev030410 BACKGROUND Ruminants are animals that have multiple stomachs to allow consumption and digestion of fibrous feedstuffs. Key to this digestive process is the bacterial breakdown of the fiber in the first stomach or rumen. The bacterial balance in the rumen can shift, allowing the ruminant to adapt to different diets. Ruminal bacteria convert fiber into lactate and volatile ...

In order to elucidate the role of propionate in themetabolism of acetate and butyrate in rumen epithelium, the effects of propionate addition on the "C transfer from "C-acetate and -butyrate into CO2, glucose, ketone bodies and lipids fractions in rumen epithelium of normally fed, starved and alloxan diabetic sheepwere investigated. The experimental results are summarized as follows.1) In rumen...

in recent years, using sol-gel procedure for the purpose of laboratory and industrial synthesis of nano-structures, and especially silica nano-particles, has been significantly increased. in this research, silica particles were synthesized by sol-gel procedure and their physical and chemical properties were studied by means of scanning electron microscopy (sem), transmission electron microscopy...

The importance of microorganisms to the mixed activities could be obtained. For this ruminant has interested an increasing number of reason, and because the pure culture approach nutritionists, particularly those in departments is time consuming, methods for studying the of animal science. In view of this interest of natural mixture have been developed. The inagricultural workers, it is surpris...

the aim of this study was to determine effects of different fatty acid profiles on rumen digestion coefficients, some of rumen metabolism parameters and rumen microbial populations. different oils were used as source of fatty acids such as, oleic, linoleic, linolenic, dha and epa. palmitic acid supplemented from a commercial product (bergafat t-300) containing high palmitic acid percentage. res...

Nitrogen kinetics were studied in six sheep (45-55 kg live weight) consuming either a high-N grass silage or a low-N dried grass made from swards of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne). The diets were fed hourly at a level of 600 g dry matter/d and supplied 19.5 and 11.0 g N/d respectively. The amounts of organic matter (OM) consumed and flowing at the duodenum and ileum and excreted in the fae...

Background. Ruminants are successful herbivorous mammals, in part due to their specialized forestomachs, the rumen complex, which facilitates the conversion of feed to soluble nutrients by micro-organisms. Is the rumen complex a modified stomach expressing new epithelial (cornification) and metabolic programs, or a specialised stratified epithelium that has acquired new metabolic activities, po...

Large (>1600 microm), ingestively masticated particles of bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon L. Pers.) leaf and stem labelled with 169Yb and 144Ce respectively were inserted into the rumen digesta raft of heifers grazing bermuda grass. The concentration of markers in digesta sampled from the raft and ventral rumen were monitored at regular intervals over approximately 144 h. The data from the two ...

I . Two pairs of Friesian steers were changed from ad lib. to restricted intake of a pelleted barley diet and were maintained on this latter intake for periods of 18 or 25 weeks. The restricted level of intake was 70 g/kg0-73 and was adjusted weekly according to individual live weights. The daily allowance was given in three equal feeds during day-time. 2. After an initial period of 9 weeks on ...