Intake and in vivo digestibility of Tetrachne dregei differed from autumn supplemented with a ruminal protein activator
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
400 g. head.d-1) and a control without the activator in 280 kg steers were studied in a metabolism shed. These animals received Tetrachne dregei controlled in a completely randomized design with three treatments, three repetitions and four sampling days for food intake and feces collection measurements. The average composition was of 5.7 and 40.6 % of crude protein, 73.1 and 32.5 % of neutral detergent fiber, for Tetrachne dregei and the ruminal protein activator, respectively. It was estimated 77.52 %
of degradable protein in the activator. The control animals, only fed with Tetrachne dregei had lower total dry matter intake, forage dry matter intake and dry matter digestibility with respect to the treated groups(P <0.001), without significant differences. The total dry matter intake, dry matter digestibility and the digestible dry matter intake, was increased in 18.9, 9.3 and 33.6 % respectively, compared to that obtained in the treated animals, (P <0.001) and the forage dry matter intake in 14.5 % (P <0.002), but there were not significant differences between doses. The ruminal protein
activator achieved high response to low doses, when increasing the intake of digestible organic matter and degradable protein significantly in 34 and 50 %, respectively (P <0.001).
Key words: protein supplementation, forages, low quality, protein activator
Article Details
Those authors that have publications with this journal accept the following terms:
1. They will retain their copyright and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) that allows third parties to share the work whenever its author is indicated and its first publication this journal. Under this license the author will be free of:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
- The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
- No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
2. The authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements to distribute the published version of the work (e.g., deposit it in an institutional telematics file or publish it in a monographic volume) whenever the initial publication is indicated in this journal.
3. The authors are allowed and recommended disseminating their work through the Internet (e.g. in institutional telematics archives or on their website) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase the citations of the published work. (See the Effect of open access).