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The determination of fermentation characteristics of some Iranian feedstuffs using gas production technique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

Z Nemati ,
A Taghizadeh ,
GH Moghaddam ,
A M Tahmasbi  and
P Yasan
Z Nemati*
Affiliation:
Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran
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Email: znnematy@yahoo.com
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The gas production technique has been widely used for evaluation of nutritive value of feeds (Pell et al., 1998) and gas production profile has been shown to have good relationships with VFA produced in the rumen (Blummel and Ørskov, 1993; Brown et al., 2002), as well as neutral detergent fiber (NDF) (R2 = 0.98) (Herrero and Jessop, 1996) and dry matter (DM) disappearance (R2 = 0.95) (Prasad et al., 1994). Carbohydrate portion of each feed is divided into three digestible fractions: The A fraction, containing sugars, short oligosaccharides and organic acids; the B1 fraction, containing starch and pectin; and B2, the digestible fiber fraction (Doane et al., 1998). The objective of this study was to evaluate of nutritive value of some Iranian feedstuffs by using gas production technique.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2006 , March 2006 , pp. 191
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Copyright © The American Society of International Law 2016

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