AMB Express (Feb 2022)

Effects of different protein sources on nutrient disappearance, rumen fermentation parameters and microbiota in dual-flow continuous culture system

  • Hui Mi,
  • Ao Ren,
  • Jinjia Zhu,
  • Tao Ran,
  • Weijun Shen,
  • Chuanshe Zhou,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Zhiliang Tan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13568-022-01358-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Abstract Scarce high-quality protein feed resources has limited the development of animal husbandry. In this study, we used a dual-flow continuous culture system to evaluate effects of difference dietary protein sources including soybean meal (SBM), cottonseed meal (CSM), and rapeseed meal (RSM), on nutrient disappearance, rumen fermentation, and microbiota of XiongDong black goats. Dietary proteins of either CSM, RSM or SBM had no effect on nutrient disappearance (P > 0.05). CSM or RSM significantly reduced (P 0.10). Although the bacterial community changed with different dietary protein sources, the disappearances of nutrients were not affected, suggesting that CSM and RSM could be used by rumen bacteria, as in case with SBM, and are suitable protein sources for ruminant diets.

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