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Rumen microbial counts and in vivo digestibility in buffaloes and cattle given different diets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

S. Puppo ,
S. Bartocci ,
S. Terramoccia ,
F. Grandoni  and
A. Amici
S. Puppo*
Affiliation:
Istituto Sperimentale per la Zootecnia, via Salaria 31, 00016 Monterotondo Sc., Rome, Italy
S. Bartocci
Affiliation:
Istituto Sperimentale per la Zootecnia, via Salaria 31, 00016 Monterotondo Sc., Rome, Italy
S. Terramoccia
Affiliation:
Istituto Sperimentale per la Zootecnia, via Salaria 31, 00016 Monterotondo Sc., Rome, Italy
F. Grandoni
Affiliation:
Istituto Sperimentale per la Zootecnia, via Salaria 31, 00016 Monterotondo Sc., Rome, Italy
A. Amici
Affiliation:
Istituto Sperimentale per la Zootecnia, via Salaria 31, 00016 Monterotondo Sc., Rome, Italy
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Abstract

Ruminal bacterial counts and in vivo digestibility were determined on four Mediterranean buffalo bulls and four Friesian bulls, all fistulated at the rumen, and given at maintenance level (50 g/kg M0·75 per day of dry matter) four different diets with the same crude protein content (N ✕ 6·25 = 140 g/kg dry matter) and with forage: concentrate ratios as follows: diet D12·5 = 0·875: 0·125; diet D25·0 = 0·75: 0·25; diet D37·5 = 0·625: 0·375; diet D50·0 = 0·5: 0·5. All the animals received the diets during four consecutive periods in a Latin-square design. Buffaloes had higher total microbial counts (10·78 v. 10·08 log10 cells per g dry rumen content, P < 0·01) as compared with cattle; differences in total ruminal bacterial counts among the diets were only observed within the buffalo species (diet D12·5 v. diets D25·0, D37·5, D50·0: 10·04 v. 10·92, 10·98, 11·17 log10 cells per g dry rumen content, P 0·01) and when comparing the two species for each diet, significantly higher values for bacterial counts in buffaloes were found for diets D25·0: 10·92 v. 10·28 (P 0·05), D37·5: 10·98 v. 10·08 (P 0·01) and D50·0: 11·17 v. 9·76 (P 0·01) log10 cells per g dry rumen content. Cattle showed significantly higher digestibility values for: organic matter (0·696 v. 0·676, P 0·05), neutral-detergent fibre (NDF; 0·548 v. 0·511, P 0·05) and cellulose (0·621 v. 0 · 509, P 0·01), while the crude protein digestibility (CPD) values were similar (0·667 and 0·671). Comparing the two species for each diet, cattle showed significantly higher digestibility values for organic matter in diet D50·0 only (0·714 v. 0·688, P 0·01), for NDF in diet D12·5 only (0·578 v. 0·531, P 0·05) and for cellulose in all diets (0·660 v. 0·546, 0·630 v. 0·525, 0·605 v. 0·505, 0·588 v. 0·460, P 0·01); in contrast buffaloes showed higher values of the CPD for diet D12·5 (0·662 v. 0·632, P 0·05).

Keywords

buffaloescattledigestibilityrumen bacteria
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Research Article
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Animal Science , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , October 2002 , pp. 323 - 329
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 2002

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