The present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of prill fat and rumen protected choline supplementation on daily dry matter intake, body weight changes and economics in lactating Murrah buffaloes (n=18) divided into three equal groups (Control, T1 and T2). Buffaloes in all the three groups were fed similar basal diet as total mixed ration comprising of berseem green fodder, wheat stra...

Wheat straw was fermented by Crinipellis sp. RCK-1, a lignin degrading fungus, under solid state fermentation conditions. The fungus degraded 18.38% lignin at the expense of 10.37% cellulose within 9 days. However, when wheat straw fermented for different duration was evaluated in vitro, the 5 day fungal fermented wheat straw called here "Biotech Feed" was found to possess 36.74% organic matter...

Assessments of the efficiency grazing systems, in terms productivity and ecological sustainability, are necessary view increased demand for animal protein. In this study, methane (CH4) emissions (sniffer methodology), dry matter (DM) yield, paddock chemical composition (AOAC Van Soest methods), nutrient intake (dry matter, DMI; crude protein, CPI; metabolizable energy, MEI), daily milk yield (D...

Megasphaera elsdenii converts lactate and glucose into butyrate, the main volatile fatty acid responsible of papillae development and may benefit calf performance. Twenty-six Holstein calves (BW = 34.5 ± 1.65 kg) were randomly assigned at birth to a control group (Meg0) and a group that received an oral dose of M. elsdenii NCIMB 41125 at 14 d of age (Meg14). Calves received colostrum for the fi...

J. Anim. Sci. Vol. 87, E-Suppl. 2/J. Dairy Sci. Vol. 92, E-Suppl. 1 NDMI. The correlation between DMI and NDMI was 0.52 (P<0.001) and were most strongly associated during the first 10 weeks of lactation, after which point DMI was less than NDMI. The correlation between FCM and DMI across all herds was 0.23 (P<0.001). However, there was considerable variation among herds, with correlations betwe...

OBJECTIVE An experiment was conducted to determine the nutrient intake, digestibility, microbial protein synthesis, haemato-biochemical attributes, immune response and growth performance of Gaddi kids fed with oat fodder based basal diet supplemented with either tea seed or tea seed saponin (TSS) extract. METHODS Eighteen male kids, 7.03±0.16 months of age and 19.72±0.64 kg body weight, were ...

ten male merghoz goats with initial live weights of 29.2 ± 1.2 kg (mean±se) were used to investigate the effect of natural changes in photoperiod on dry matter intake (dmi) and reproductive activity during a 365 day study. the bucks were housed in individual pens, under natural daylength condition at west of iran, kermanshah (34˚ 18¢n and 47˚ 3¢e and 1420 m above sea level). a diet was offered ...

Eight ruminally fistulated steers were utilized to evaluate the effects of amount of dried distillers grains (DDG) supplementation on forage dry matter intake (DMI), digestibility, and rumen parameters in steers consuming bermudagrass round bale silage (RBS). Treatments consisted of RBS only or RBS plus daily supplementation of DDG at 0.33, 0.66, or 1.0% of bodyweight (BW). There was quadratic ...

In the dynamic modeling of dairy cow performance over a full lactation, the difference between net energy intake and net energy used for maintenance, growth, and output in milk accumulates in body reserves. A simple dynamic model of net energy balance was constructed to select, out of some common dry matter intake (DMI) prediction equations, the one that resulted in a minimum cumulative bias in...

Large ruminants respond to changing plant phenology during winter by decreasing voluntary food intake, increasing gut passage time and utilizing body fat reserves. It is uncertain, however, how other large mammals with a non-ruminant digestive physiology cope with winter forage conditions. Therefore, we investigated seasonality of energy intake in a large herbivorous wild mammal, the Przewalski...