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Comparative digestive ability and microbial population of Sistani (bos indicus) and Holstein (bos taurus) cattle fed different roughage diets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

H. Mansouri ,
A. Nikkhah ,
M. Rezaeian ,
M. Moradi  and
S. A. Mirhadi
H. Mansouri*
Affiliation:
Animal Science Research Institute, PO Box 31585-1483, Karaj, I.R.., Iran
A. Nikkhah
Affiliation:
Agriculture Faculty of Tehran University, Karaj, I.R., Iran
M. Rezaeian
Affiliation:
Agriculture Faculty of Tehran University, Karaj, I.R., Iran
M. Moradi
Affiliation:
Agriculture Faculty of Tehran University, Karaj, I.R., Iran
S. A. Mirhadi
Affiliation:
Animal Science Research Institute, PO Box 31585-1483, Karaj, I.R.., Iran
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There is conflict regarding the relative abilities of Bos indicus and Bos taurus cattle to digest the feedstuffs. Part of this conflict may have arisen because a wide variety of diets have been fed at different range of intakes and only digestibility in whole tract measured. Generally no attempts have been made to partition rumen and post-rumen digestion or to assess the relative importance of rumen digestion and clearance between diets and between genotypes. Nitrogen (N) is frequently a major limiting nutrient for ruminants specially when they are given diets of mature herbage. On the other hand the extent to which cattle are able to recycle urea-N from blood to rumen for utilization in production of microbial protein could have an important influence on animal survival under condition of severe N limitation. The present experiment was designed to compare rumen microbial population and the end products of rumen fermentation between Sistani (Bos indicus) and Holstein (Bos taurus) breeds.

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Cattle Nutrition
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2003 , 2003 , pp. 116
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2003

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