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Provedor de dados: | 96
País: | Brazil
Título: | Effects of dietary brown propolis on nutrient intake and digestibility in feedlot lambs
Autores: | Silva,Jonilson Araújo da; Ítavo,Camila Celeste Brandão Ferreira; Ítavo,Luís Carlos Vinhas; Morais,Maria da Graça; Franco,Gumercindo Loriano; Zeoula,Lucia Maria; Heimbach,Natália da Silva.
Data: | 2014-07-01
Ano: | 2014
Palavras-chave: | Flavonoids; Monensin; Ruminants.
Resumo: | The present study tested brown propolis in crude or extract form as a feed supplement for feedlot lambs to identify the type that most improves in vivo nutrient digestibility. Digestibility was assessed by both total fecal collection and internal markers and the results obtained by these techniques were compared. The completely randomized design was used to compare feed intake and nutrient digestibility of 24 male lambs aged seven months among four dietary treatments (crude brown propolis, propolis ethanol extract, monensin sodium, and control). Methods of feces collection were compared using a completely randomized split-plot design, with experimental diets corresponding to the main factor and the methods to estimate fecal production as the sub-factor. The diets had a roughage:concentrate ratio of 50:50, with Tifton-85 bermudagrass hay (Cynodon spp.) as roughage, and ground corn, soybean meal and minerals as concentrate. The lambs fed diets with crude propolis had higher feed intake than those fed diets containing monensin sodium. The different diets did not affect dry matter, organic matter, crude protein, neutral detergent fiber, or acid detergent fiber digestibility, but crude propolis supplementation provided higher ether extract digestibility than monensin sodium. Nutrient digestibility, as indicated by indigestible neutral detergent fiber, indigestible acid detergent fiber and sequentially-determined indigestible acid detergent fiber, was lower than that found with the fecal collection method. The addition of brown propolis has the same effect as monensin, but neither maximized nutrient availability in the diet of feedlot lambs at 7 months of age. Digestibility assessment using the internal markers indigestible neutral detergent fiber, indigestible acid detergent fiber and sequentially-determined indigestible acid detergent fiber is not an efficient method compared with total feces collection.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982014000700376
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1516-35982014000700006
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia  v.43 n.7 2014
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess