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Utilization of salts of volatile fatty acids by growing sheep

4*. Effects of type of fermentation of the basal diet on the utilization of salts of volatile fatty acids for nitrogen retention and body gains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

E. R. Ørskov  and
D. M. Allen
E. R. Ørskov
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Reading
D. M. Allen
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, University of Reading
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1. Two experiments are reported in which sodium and calcium salts of volatile fatty acids (VFA) were given to lambs as additions to two basal dietsof hay andconcentrate. The two diets induced distinctly different types of rumen fermentation. A low-concentrate diet gave higher acetic and lower butyric acid proportions in the rumen contents than a high-concentrate diet. The two diets were given to lambs to provide equal intake of digestible organic matter. In one change-over experiment with twelve sheep the nitrogen retention was determined, and in a second experiment involving sixty-four lambs the efficiency of the VFA salt to promote body-weight gain was estimated. 2. The estimated metabolizable energy (ME) from the high-concentrate diet was utilized significantly more efficiently than that from the low-concentrate diet to promote positive nitrogen retention and to increase empty body-weight and carcass weight. These differences in final live weight were not significant owing to the greater content of the alimentary tract of lambs given the low-concentrate diet. 3. On both diets the lambs receiving the additions of VFA salts grew faster and produced significantly greater empty body and carcass weights than the lambs receiving only the basal diets. 4. For promoting carcass gain the energy derived from the VFA salts appeared to be utilized more efficiently than the calculated ME above maintenance of the two basal diets. 5. There were no significant differences between the efficiency of utilization of the energy from acetate, propionate and butyrate to promote carcass gains. There was, however, a tendency for the response to acetate to be greater on the high-concentrate diet than on the low-concentrate diet. 6. With a low level of feeding but with positive N balance, addition of acetate resulted in a greater N retention than that of propionate with both diets. 7. It is concluded that if the reported low utilization of the ME of diets high in roughage is related to the proportion of acetic acid in the rumen contents, then the implied losses of energy may be associated with the formation of acetic acid rather than its utilization.

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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 1966 , pp. 519 - 532
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1966

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