Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dlnhk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-30T06:45:23.341Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Some factors affecting voluntary food intake in buffaloes. 1. Effect of feeding long-chopped and ground roughages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

A. L. Taparia  and
V. V. Sharma
A. L. Taparia
Affiliation:
Department of Livestock Production and Management, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, University of Udaipur, Udaipur 31300 (Rajasthan), India
V. V. Sharma
Affiliation:
Department of Livestock Production and Management, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, University of Udaipur, Udaipur 31300 (Rajasthan), India
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Three experiments each utilizing four buffalo heifers in 4 × 4 latin square designs were conducted over a period of 84 days to estimate the voluntary consumption of eight long-chopped and four ground roughages. Voluntary intake and rate of passage were determined during the last 10 days and digestibility of feed nutrients during the last 6 days of a 21-day experimental period.

The mean daily dry-matter intake (DMI, g/kg W0·75), D.M. digestibility (%) and mean retention time (h) of long and chopped foods were 81·6, 65·7, 75·2; 81·4, 54·2, 60·3; 78·0, 58·6, 66·0; 75·8, 58·5, 66·3; 67·5, 68·1, 87·9; 62·1, 40·9, 73·3; 56·3, 50·6, 70·9 and 55·5, 58·8, 82·4, respectively for maize silage, sorghum stover, dry grass, maize stover, berseem hay, wheat straw, pearl-millet stover and cowpea hay. Appreciable differences were observed between feeds in the digestibility of D.M., organic matter (OM) and crude protein (CP). No consistent pattern in level of intake and either CP or crude fibre (CF) contents of feeds or their D.M. digestibilities was discernible. The relationship between DMI and D.M. digestibility was low (r = 0·29). Higher DMI of feeds tended to be associated with faster rate of passage excepting maize silage and berseem hay. The relationship between D.M. digestibility and mean retention time was low (r = 0·46) and between total digestible nutrient intake and body weight was high (r = 0·79).

The mean daily DMI (g/kg W0·75), D.M. digestibility (%) and mean retention time (h) of ground roughages were 68·7, 51·3, 58·0; 62·9, 38·4, 60·0; 62·4, 40·1, 63·0; 53·1, 66·6, 72·0, respectively for ground maize stover, wheat straw, dry grass and berseem hay. Ground roughages appeared to be utilized less efficiently by buffaloes than longchopped roughages.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 95 , Issue 1 , August 1980 , pp. 147 - 157
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (1965). Official Methods of Analysis. 10th ed.Washington, D.C.: A.O.A.C.Google Scholar
Balch, C. C. (1950). Factors affecting the utilization of food by dairy cows. I. The rate of passage of food through the digestive tract. British Journal of Nutrition 4, 361–388.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Balch, C. C. & Campling, R. C. (1962). Regulation of voluntary food intake in ruminants. Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews 32, 669–686.Google ScholarPubMed
Balch, C. C. & Campling, R. C. (1965). The rate of passage of digesta through the ruminant digestive tract. In Physiology of Digestion in the Ruminant (ed. Dougherty, W. R.). London: Butterworths.Google Scholar
Beardsley, D. W. (1964). Symposium on forage utilization. Nutritive value of forage as affected by physical form. II. Beef cattle and sheep studies. Journal of Animal Science 23, 239–244.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blaxter, K. L. (1962). The Energy Metabolism of Ruminants. London: Hutchinson.Google Scholar
Blaxter, K. L., Wainman, F. W. & Wilson, R. S. (1961). The regulation of food intake by sheep. Animal Production 3, 56–61.Google Scholar
Blaxter, K. L. & Wilson, R. S. (1962). The voluntary intake of roughage by steers. Animal Production 4, 351–357.Google Scholar
Campling, R. C. (1964). Factors affecting voluntary intake of grass. Journal of the British Grassland Society 19, 110–117.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Campling, R. C. (1966 a). The control of voluntary intake of food in cattle. Outlook on Agriculture 5, 74–79.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Campling, R. C. (1966 b). The intake of hay and silage by cows. Journal of the British Grassland Society 21, 41–48.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Campling, R. C., Freer, M. & Balch, C. C. (1961). Factors affecting voluntary intake of food by cows. I. Preliminary observations on the effect of voluntary intake of hay and change in the amount of retiouloruminal content. British Journal of Nutrition 15, 523–530.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Campling, R. C., Freer, M. & Balch, C. C. (1962). Factors affecting voluntary food intake by cows. 3. The effect of urea on the voluntary intake of oat straw. British Journal of Nutrition 16, 115–124.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Castle, E. J. (1956). The rate of passage of foodstuffs through the alimentary tract of the goat. British Journal of Nutrition 10, 15–23.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Conrad, H. R. (1966). Symposium on factors influencing the voluntary intake of herbage by ruminants. Physiological and physical factors limiting feed intake. Journal of Animal Science 25, 227–235.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Conrad, H. R., Pratt, A. D. & Hibbs, J. W. (1964). Regulation of feed intake in dairy cows. I. Change in importance of physical and physiological factors with increasing digestibility. Journal of Dairy Science 47, 54–62.Google Scholar
Crabtree, J. R. & Williams, G. L. (1971). The voluntary intake and utilization of roughage-concentrate diets by sheep. 2. Barley and soya bean meal supplementation of hay diets. Animal Production 13, 83–92.Google Scholar
Crampton, E. W. (1957). Inter-relations between digestible nutrient and energy content, voluntary dry matter intake and overall feeding value of forages. Journal of Animal Science 16, 546–652.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crampton, E. W., Donefer, E. & Lloyd, L. E. (1960). A nutritive value index for forages. Journal of Animal Science 19, 538–544.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Elliot, R. C. (1967). Voluntary intake of low protein diets by ruminants. I. Intake of food by cattle. Journal of Agricultural Science, Cambridge 69, 375–382.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Elliot, R. C. & Topps, J. H. (1963). Voluntary intake of low protein diets by sheep. Animal Production 5, 269–276.Google Scholar
Greenhalgh, J. F. D. & Runcie, K. V. (1962). The herbage intake and milk production of strip- and zero-grazed dairy cows. Journal of Agricultural Science, Cambridge 59, 95–103.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gupta, D. C. & Jackson, N. G. (1968). Effect of feeding lucerne on milk yield and composition as compared to berseem feeding. Indian Journal of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry 38, 311–316.Google Scholar
Gupta, P. C. & Pradhan, K. (1974). Prediction of voluntary intake and nutritive value index of forages. Indian Journal of Dairy Science 27, 214–216.Google Scholar
Jhanwar, B. M. & Sharma, V. V. (1972). Rate of passage of roughage through digestive tract of sheep. Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 42, 226–230.Google Scholar
Johnson, W. L.Hardison, W. A., Ordoveza, A. L. & Castillo, L. S. (1968). The nutritive value of Panicum maximum (guinea grass). III. Factors affecting voluntary intake by cattle and water buffaloes. Journal of Agricultural Science, Cambridge 71, 67–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jones, G. M. (1972). Chemical factors and their relations to feed intake regulation in ruminants. Canadian Journal of Animal Science 52, 207–239.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
King, W. A., O'Dell, G. D., Brannon, C. C. & Webb, H. J. (1963). Effect of grinding and pelleting on the utilization of Coastal Bermuda grass hay by dairy heifers. Journal of Dairy Science 46, 34–37.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leaver, J. D. (1973). Rearing of dairy cattle. 4. Effect of concentrate supplementation on the live-weight gain and feed intake of calves offered roughages ad libitum. Animal Production 17, 43–52.Google Scholar
McCullough, T. A. (1959). Conditions influencing forage acceptability and rate of intake. Journal of Dairy Science 42, 571–574.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McCullough, T. A. (1969). A study of factors affeoting voluntary intake of food by cattle. Animal Production 11, 145–153.Google Scholar
Meyer, J. H., Kromann, R. & Carret, W. N. (1965). Digestion (Influence of roughage preparation). In Physiology of Digestion in the Ruminant (ed. Dougherty, W. R.), pp. 262–271. London: Butterworths.Google Scholar
Miles, D. G., Walters, R. J. K. & Evans, B. M. (1969). Dry matter intake and live-weight gain of cattle and sheep offered different grass varieties with and without clover. Animal Production 11, 19–28.Google Scholar
Minson, D. J. (1963). The effect of pelleting and wafering in the feeding value of roughage—a review. Journal of the British Grassland Society 18, 39–44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moore, L. A. (1964). Symposium on forage utilization: Nutritive value of forage as affected by physical form. I. General principles involved with ruminants and effect of feeding pelleted or wafered forage to dairy cattle. Journal of Animal Science 23, 230–238.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Morrison, F. B. (1957). Feeds and Feeding. 22nd ed.New York: Morrison Publishing Co.Google Scholar
Murdoch, J. C. (1967). Factors affecting the voluntary intake of silage and hay. Journal of the British Grassland Society 221, 95–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
O'Dell, G. D., King, W. A., Cook, W. C. & Moore, S. L. (1963). Effect of physical state of Coastal Bermuda grass hay on passage through digestive traot of dairy heifers. Journal of Dairy Science 46, 38–42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rodrigue, C. B. & Allen, N. N. (1956). The effect of fine grinding of hay on the digestibility of its nutrients and rate of passage. Journal of Dairy Science 39, 937.Google Scholar
Rodrigue, C. B. & Allen, N. N. (1960). The effect of fine grinding of hay on ration digestibility, rate of passage and fat content of milk. Canadian Journal of Animal Science 40, 23–29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sen, K. C. & Ray, S. N. (1971). Nutritive Value of Indian Cattle Feeds and Feeding of Animals. 6th ed.Delhi: Indian Council of Agricultural Research.Google Scholar
Setty, S. V. S. (1973). Studies on the nutritive value of forages. Indian Journal of Dairy Science 26, 1–8.Google Scholar
Sharma, V. V. & Jhanwar, B. M. (1973). Effect of supplementation of wheat straw with concentrate on voluntary intake, digestibility and growth in cattle. The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 43, 688–693.Google Scholar
Sharma, V. V., Taparia, A. L. & Jhanwar, B. M. (1972). Molasses and urea as supplements to wheat straw–barley rations fed to dairy heifers. The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 42, 89–93.Google Scholar
Snedecor, G. W. (1962). Statistical Methods. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University Press.Google Scholar
Snedecor, G. W. & Cochran, W. G. (1967). Statistical Methods. London: Oxford.Google Scholar
Spahr, S. L., Branding, A. E., Kesler, E. M. & Cloninger, W. H. (1966). Short-term effects of dietary fiber level on feed intake and production by well-fed cows. Journal of Dairy Science 49, 1046–1049.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Taparia, A. L. & Sharma, V. V. (1979). Relationship between voluntary intake, digestibility and rate of passage of some forages fed to dairy heifers. Indian Journal of Dairy Science 32, 53–57.Google Scholar
Van Soest, P. J. (1965). Symposium on factors influencing the voluntary food intake of herbage by ruminants: Voluntary intake in relation to chemical composition and digestibility. Journal of Animal Science 24, 834–843.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Warner, R. G. (1963). Factors affecting the voluntary food intake of ruminants. Proceedings of Cornell Nutritional Conference.Google Scholar
Wilkins, R. J., Lonsdale, C. R., Tetlow, R. M. & Forrest, T. J. (1972). The voluntary intake and digestibility by cattle and sheep of dried wafers containing particles of different size. Animal Production 14, 177–188.Google Scholar