Effect of UMMB supplementation on rumen profile in buffalo calves was undertaken with the objectives to study the effect of UMMB on rumen microbiology and rumen metabolites. Eight apparently healthy male buffalo calves of 10 to12 months age and weighing between 100 to 150 kg were used as experimental animals. They were divided in to control and treatment groups consisting of 4 animals in each g...

Analysis of the rumen content was carried out on a total of 43 samples taken from deer (Capreolus capreolus L.) shot on the hunting grounds of "Barajevska Reka" (Serbia). All animals were males and were hunted in the early morning. The experiment was set as a randomized trial with four treatments (spring, summer, autumn and winter) and an uneven distribution of animals per treatment. Organolept...

In order to study the effects of a small difference in starch and nitrogen availability on proteolysis, two different diets were supplied to four ewes fitted with rumen fistulae. They differed in the ratio of fermentable nitrogen over fermentable energy. with 144 g of fermentable nitrogen (FN) per kg of fermentable energy (FE) for diet I and 126 g FN x kg(-1) FE for diet II. The diets were cons...

The effect of feeding chopped and unchopped groundnut haulm (Harawa) on nutrient intake, metabolism utilization was determined in 24 (12 each male female) growing Yankasa lambs. Feeding harawa significantly (P 0.05) Increased feed the digestibility nutrients liveweight gains. It also had an ap­preciable nitrogen retention pro­duction total rumen nitrogen, ammonia-nitrogen volatile fatty acids. ...

This study was designed to investigate the clinico-haemato-biochemical, rumen fl uid and peritoneal fl uid alteration in buffaloes with peritonitis. Buffaloes with peritonitis had anorexia, dehydration, abdominal distension, ruminal atony, pain, fever, reduced milk yield and loss of defecation. Pungent smelling peritoneal fl uid was yielded on abdominocentesis. Hemato-biochemical alterations re...

Microbial protein synthesis of steers (liveweight 286±9 kg) was compared with diets of ad libitum winter grass and fodder beet with 1 kg DM of lucerne silage. The experimental design was a four-by-two treatment comparison (experiment 1 and 2), using 11 day individual pen trials with total faecal and urinary collection. The trials assessed in vivo digestibility of diets, and diurnal variations i...

Short term in vitro incubations were used to evaluate the effect of fumaric acid bentonite coupled addition on rumen fermentation effeciency. Ruminal contents from five steers were used for preparation of inoculums of mixed rumen microorganisms that were used in generatation of three treatment systems, negative control, fumaric acid treated, and fumaric acid – bentonite coupled treated. The fer...

Current systems for the evaluation of protein-feeds for ruminants take account of two principal nitrogen (N) requirements. One is to satisfy the needs of the rumen micro-organisms in order to maximize. microbial protein yield this N can largely be provided in any form that will give rise to enough ammonia in rumen fluid. The other N requirement is for a dietary source of true protein that wi,ll...