The effect of roughage quality on intake, digestion and rumen function in sheep

Author(s):  
F.D.DeB. Hovell ◽  
S.M. Masvaure ◽  
P.C. Gregory ◽  
D.J. Kyle

In a previous experiment (Hovell et al. (1987)) it was found that with two roughages, one of good (hay) and the other of poor (straw) degradability, both ground and pelleted, that the voluntary intake of the hay was (60% greater than that of the straw. This was despite the fact that rumen DM pool sizes were very similar. The outflow of undegraded material from the rumen was much greater with the hay although particle size should not have been a constraint to outflow with either roughage (Poppi et al. (1980)), and indeed their particle size distributions were very similar. It was suggested that there might have been an effect of roughage quality on rumen outflow rate, possibly mediated through an effect on reticulo-rumen contractions.The objective of the experiment reported here was to examine the effect of roughages with different degradabilities on voluntary intake, rumen volume, rumen outflow rate, and on reticulo-ruminal contractions.

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.K. Ellis ◽  
R. Buchan ◽  
M. Hoover ◽  
J. Martyny ◽  
B. Bucher-Bartleson ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 126 (10/11) ◽  
pp. 577-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuhiko FURUKAWA ◽  
Yuichi OHIRA ◽  
Eiji OBATA ◽  
Yutaka YOSHIDA

1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-563
Author(s):  
Vladimír Kudrna ◽  
Pavel Hasal

To the description of changes of solid particle size in population, the application was proposed of stochastic differential equations and diffusion equations adequate to them making it possible to express the development of these populations in time. Particular relations were derived for some particle size distributions in flow and batch equipments. It was shown that it is expedient to complement the population balances often used for the description of granular systems by a "diffusion" term making it possible to express the effects of random influences in the growth process and/or particle diminution.


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