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The digestion of untreated and formaldehyde-treated soya-bean and rapeseed meals by cattle fed a basal silage diet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

J. A. Rooke ,
I. M. Brookes  and
D. G. Armstrong
J. A. Rooke
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NEl 7RU
I. M. Brookes
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NEl 7RU
D. G. Armstrong
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NEl 7RU
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Summary

The effect of pretreating soya-bean and rapeseed meals with formaldehyde was studied. Soya-bean and rapeseed meals, both untreated and formaldehyde-treated, were fed to cattle receiving a basal diet of silage in a 4 × 4 latin square. Formaldehyde treatment of both meals significantly reduced apparent N digestibility. All four protein supplements increased the amounts of non-ammonia N and amino acid N entering the small intestine over those obtained when silage was fed alone. Formaldehyde treatment of the meals increased the amounts of non-ammonia N and amino acid N entering the small intestine; this effect was significant, however, for only the formaldehyde treatment of the soya-bean meal. The low efficiency of microbial N synthesis observed when silage was fed alone was increased by the inclusion of both of the soyabean meals in the diet but not by the inclusion of the rapeseed meals. Formaldehyde treatment reduced the apparent degradability of the soya-bean meal N, determined in vivo, from 0·90 for the untreated meal to 0·40 for the formaldehyde-treated meal; similarly the degradability of the untreated rapeseed meal was reduced from 0·77 to 0·41 by the formaldehyde treatment. The in sacco technique gave values for degradability for the protein supplements which ranked them in a similar manner as did the in vivo technique; however, for any one meal the in sacco value for degradability was lower than that determined in vivo.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 100 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 329 - 342
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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