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The effect of different extraction procedures on the recovery of cell walls in forage and faeces from cattle and sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

K. W. Moir
K. W. Moir
Affiliation:
Animal Research Institute, Department of Primary Industries, Yeerongpilly, Brisbane, Australia
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Summary

Forages and faeces from 28 digestibility experiments with cattle or sheep were extracted with neutral detergent solution, with and without sodium sulphite, or sequentially extracted with acid-pepsin, ethyl alcohol, diethyl ether and either ammonium oxalate or hot water. Ammonium oxalate was used to extract small amounts of non-protein material not extracted from legumes by hot water. Compared with sequential extraction the average protein-free organic residues after extraction with detergent, with and without sodium sulphite, were significantly lower in legumes and faeces, but not in grasses. The largest differences occurred in faeces from grasses for which the recoveries of cell walls as percentages of the faecal organic matter were found to be 59·2, 62·0 and 66·4 respectively, after extraction with neutral detergent plus sodium sulphite, neutral detergent alone and sequential extraction with various solvents. It was considered that the differences were due to extraction of cell-wall constituents by both detergent and sulphite.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , June 1972 , pp. 351 - 353
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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