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Use of an in vitro gas production technique with faeces as inoculant to assess tropical forage quality for equids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2021

R.T.S. Kirkhope  and
R.S. Lowman
R.T.S. Kirkhope
Affiliation:
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, United Kingdom
R.S. Lowman
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RG, United Kingdom
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In tropical areas reliable estimation of feedstuff nutritional value often proves difficult. Recording in vitro gas production from feedstuffs, using caecal digesta as a gut microbial source, is a promising new method for analysing digestion kinetics in equids. However, this demands caecal fistulation. Substituting caecal fluid with faeces provides a potential non-invasive alternative.

Naked Oats (NO) and four forages (Grass Pellets (GP), Alfalfa Hay (AH), Oat Straw (OS) and Millet Stover (MS)), of known in-vivo digestibility, were incubated in vitro with either a faecal or a caecal digesta inoculum.

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Summer Placement Scheme President Prize-Poster 1995
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 1996 , March 1996 , pp. 248
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1996

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