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Microbial protein kinetics for sheep fed with three different hays using 15N as marker

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

I. C. S. Bueno*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition – Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP), CP 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
S. L. S. Cabral Filho
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition – Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP), CP 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
C. Longo
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition – Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP), CP 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
A. L. Abdalla
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Animal Nutrition – Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP), CP 96, CEP 13400-970, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Non-degradable dietetic protein supply depends on rumen degradation. Determination of microbial protein synthesized in the rumen as the result of microbial fermentation is important because microbial protein synthesis could be influenced by diet (Dove and Milne, 1994). Several evaluation systems consider the contribution of microbial protein on protein intestinal flow as a constant, based on feed intake. But this approach has presented great variations. The purpose of this work was to determine in vivo microbial protein kinetics for sheep fed with three protein level hays.

Type
Feed Characterisation
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2003

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