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The role of rumen protozoa in the utilization of paspalum (Paspalum dilatatum) hay by cattle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

B. S. Punia ,
Jane Leibholz  and
G. J. Faichney
B. S. Punia
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Husbandry, University of Sydney, Camden, NSW 2570, Australia
Jane Leibholz
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Husbandry, University of Sydney, Camden, NSW 2570, Australia
G. J. Faichney
Affiliation:
CSIRO, Division of Animal Production, PO Box 239, Blacktown, NSW 2148, Australia
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1.Six Friesian heifers (250 kg live weight) with permanent cannulas in the rumen and abomasum were allocated at random into two groups of three. One group was treated with Teric GN9 (ICI (Aust.) Ltd) to defaunate the animals during the first two of the four periods of the experiment, after which they were refaunated. The second group was treated with Teric at the end of the first two periods. The dietary treatments were: paspalum (Paspalum dilatatum) hay (4.1 kg/d) given alone and the hay supplemented with urea (20 g/kg dry matter).

2. Defaunation was not complete but the approximate volume of protozoa in the rumen of treated animals was less than 6% of that in the untreated animals.

3. The amount of organic matter (OM) digested in the stomach was lower (P < 0.01) in animals with reduced fauna than in those with normal fauna. There were reductions in both the apparent OM digestibility in the total tract (from 0.56 to 0.52, P < 0.01) and the proportion of the digestible OM digested in the rumen (from 0.82 to 0.79, not significant) of animals with reduced fauna. Apparent digestibilities of acid-detergent fibre and neutral-detergent fibre were significantly lower (P < 0.01) in animals with reduced fauna.

4. The amount of nitrogen disappearing from the stomach was significantly higher (P < 0.01) with the urea supplement; effects due to concentrations of protozoa were not significant. The flow of non-ammonia-N from the abomasum was higher (P < 0.05) in animals with reduced fauna than in animals with normal fauna. The flows of bacterial N from the abomasum and the efficiencies of bacterial N synthesis were not significantly affected by the treatments. N retention was higher (P < 0.01) in animals receiving the urea supplement but differences due to protozoa were not significant.

5. Protozoal contribution to the microbial N flowing from the rumen of animals with normal fauna was estimated to be 24 and 27% with and without the urea supplement respectively.

6. Concentrations of rumen-fluid ammonia-N were reduced (P < 0.05) and those of volatile fatty acids were increased (P < 0.01) with reduction in protozoal numbers. Molar proportions of propionic acid increased (P < 0.05) and of butyric acid decreased (P < 0.01) with reduced rumen fauna.

7. Rumen water volume was lower (P < 0.05) and the mean retention time of indigestible acid-detergent lignin tended to be higher in animals with reduced fauna. Rumen dry-matter pool and mean retention time of CrEDTA were not significantly different between treatments.

Type
Papers on General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , May 1987 , pp. 395 - 406
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1987

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