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Effect of ammoniation or protein supplementation of barley straw on digestion and purine derivative excretion in sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

P. O. Mawuenyegah ,
L. Warly ,
T. Harumoto  and
T. Fujihara
P. O. Mawuenyegah
Affiliation:
Shimane University, Faculty of Agriculture, Matsue, Shimane 690, Japan
L. Warly
Affiliation:
Shimane University, Faculty of Agriculture, Matsue, Shimane 690, Japan
T. Harumoto
Affiliation:
Shimane University, Faculty of Agriculture, Matsue, Shimane 690, Japan
T. Fujihara
Affiliation:
Shimane University, Faculty of Agriculture, Matsue, Shimane 690, Japan
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Abstract

An experiment was conducted to examine the effect of ammonia treatment or soya-bean meal supplementation on rumen and lower tract digestion and urinary purine-derivative excretion in sheep given barley straw-based diets. Four wethers each fitted with simple rumen and duodenal cannulae were randomly allocated to four diets in a 4×4 Latin-square design. The diets were, untreated barley straw + molasses meal (diet 1), ammonia-treated barley straw + molasses meal (diet 2), untreated barley straw + soya-bean meal + molasses meal (diet 3) and ammonia-treated barley straw + soya-bean meal + molasses meal (diet 4). Dry-matter (DM) intake, total tract neutral- and acid-detergent fibre apparent digestibility and faecal nitrogen (N) output were higher for diets 2 and 4. Microbial protein yield, determined from total urinary purine-derivative excretion, was also high in sheep on diets 2 and 4. However, supplementation with soya-bean meal in diet 4 reduced DM and fibre digestion but increased intake and microbial synthesis. Despite the lower microbial protein synthesis for diet 3, total tract N digestion was high for the diet, an indication of higher nutrient absorption in the lower tract. The above results indicated that there was a substantial increase in rumen microbial N yield from ammoniated straw-based diets. However, not all the N was made available to the animals. Some of the microbial N absorbed in the lower tract may have been overestimated by the use of the purine derivative-microbial N evaluation method. On the other hand, when protein supplements were given the amount of microbial protein available to the ruminant through absorption in the lower tract may have been underestimated by urinary purine derivatives.

Keywords

ammonia treatmentprotein supplementspurinessheepstraw
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Animal Science , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , June 1997 , pp. 433 - 439
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1997

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