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フスマ ノ ホキュウ ガ イナワラ キュウヨ メンヨウ ノ ハンスウ コウドウ ニ オヨボス エイキョウ
Title Alternative (English)
Effect of Wheat Bran Supplement to Rice Straw Diet on the Ruminating Behavior in Sheep
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language
jpn
Author
Harumoto, Tadashi
Kato, Masanobu
Description
The effect of wheat bran supplement to rice straw diet on the ruminating behavior in sheep was investigated, using two rumen-fistulated adult wethers (49.5 and 36.5kg of B. W.).
In each of two experimental periods, wethers were given 600g of rice straw daily either alone or with 200g of supplementary wheat bran. In each period, following 7-day preliminary feeding, eating and ruminating behaviors were measured for seven consecutive days. In addition, chemical conditions within the rumen and digestibility of the rice straw were measured.
Wethers ate the rice straw more rapidly when wheat bran was supplemented than when rice straw diet alone was fed. The mean time spent in ruminating reduced significantly in one wether but not changed in the other wether when wheat bran was supplemented. However, the chewing time in each bolus or the cyclic rate of regurgitation shortened significantly in both wethers due to supplementary wheat bran. Furthermore, supplement of wheat bran clearly reduced the rumen pH and increased the VFA and ammonia concentrations within the rumen, and resulted in significantly greater digestibility of each component in the rice straw as compared to the feeding of rice straw alone.
It is suggested that wheat bran supplemented to rice straw diet has some effects upon the ruminating behavior in relation to the change of ruminal fermentation.
Journal Title
Bulletin of the Faculty of Agriculture, Shimane University
Volume
13
Start Page
21
End Page
26
ISSN
0370940X
Published Date
1979-12-15
NCID
AN00108015
Publisher
島根大学農学部
Publisher Aalternative
Shimane University, Faculty of Agriculture
NII Type
Departmental Bulletin Paper
OAI-PMH Set
Faculty of Life and Environmental Science
Remark
開学30周年記念号
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