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ABSTRACT: The effects of feeding pomegranate seed pulp (PSP) on milk yield, milk composition, fatty acid profiles of milk fat, and blood metabolites were examined in this study. During a pretrial period, 27 multiparous southern Khorasan (Iran) cross-bred goats were fed a similar diet and dry matter intake, milk yield, and milk composition were recorded. After adaptation and based on pretrial records, the goats were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 experimental diets and were housed in individual stalls. Experimental diets included 0, 6, or 12% of PSP (dry matter basis) and were fed as total mixed rations ad libitum for a 45-d period. Diets were formulated to be isonitrogenous and isocaloric. Supplementation of PSP did not affect dry matter intake or average daily gain of goats. Milk yield was not affected by inclusion of PSP in the diet. Milk fat concentration of goats fed diets with 6 and 12% PSP increased, but milk fat yield, milk protein concentration, and milk solids-not-fat concentration of goats were not affected by diets. Feeding PSP did not affect blood glucose, cholesterol, urea N, triglyceride, or lipoproteins. Feeding goats a diet containing 12% PSP modified the milk fatty acid profile, including conjugated linoleic, punicic, and vaccenic acids.
Journal of Dairy Science 08/2011; 94(8):4075-80. · 2.56 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: A mechanistic lactation model, based on a theory of mammary cell proliferation and cell death, was studied and compared to the equation of Wood (1967). Lactation curves of British Holstein Friesian cows (176 curves), Spanish Churra sheep (40 curves) and Spanish Murciano–Granadina goats (30 curves) were used for model evaluation. Both models were fitted in their original form using non-linear least squares estimation. The parameters were compared among species and among parity groups within species.
The Journal of Agricultural Science 05/2010; 148(03):249 - 262. · 2.04 Impact Factor
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The Journal of Agricultural Science 09/2007; 145(05):529 - 537. · 2.04 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The effect of different Effective Rumen Degradable Protein (ERDP) to Fermentable Metabolizable Energy (FME) on early lactating cow responses was investigated. Total tract digestibility of organic matter of various feedstuffs including barely grain, corn grain, wheat bran, cottonseed meal, soybean meal, sugar beet pulp, alfalfa hay, cotton seeds, corn silage and fish meal was determined using in situ technique. These data were used to predict FME of the feedstuffs. Two diets were provided with different ERDP/FME ratio (9.7 and 10.7 g MJ -1). The diets fed to fourteen early lactating Holstein cows averaging 21?16 Days In Milk (DIM) and 32?9 Kg d -1 milk yield for seven weeks, using a completely randomized design. Dry matter intake, milk yield and milk composition were measured weekly. Blood metabolites including glucose and urea nitrogen were measured in weeks 4 and 7. Rumen fluid NH3-N was recorded in the 3rd week of the experiment. Dry matter intake was significantly (p-1 than those fed ERDP/FME = 10.7 g MJ -1 (21 vs. 21.6, respectively). Milk yield was significantly (p-1 compared with those fed ERDP/FME = 10.7 g MJ -1 (35.2 vs. 32.3, respectively). Milk composition, blood metabolites and rumen fluid NH3-N were not significantly affected by the treatments (p>0.05).
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ABSTRACT: Different mathematical models were evaluated as candidates to describe ruminal dry matter (DM) and crude protein (CP) degradation kinetics of raw and roasted whole soybeans from data obtained using the in situ polyester bag technique. Three models were used: segmented with up to 3 straight lines (model I), negative exponential (model II), and rational function or inverse polynomial (linear over linear; model III). A fourth, a generalized sigmoidal model, was also considered but the data did not exhibit sigmoidicity, so it was dropped from the analysis. Lagged and nonlagged versions of each model were fitted to the DM and CP disappearance curves of 6 different feeds (2 cultivars of raw or differently heat-processed whole soybean). The comparison between lagged and nonlagged versions of each model, based on statistical and behavior characteristics, showed for all models that the discrete lag parameter did not significantly improve the fit to ruminal DM and CP disappearance curves. The comparison between models (using nonlagged equations) showed that models I and II gave better goodness-of-fit than model III. Based on biological characteristics, models II and III underestimated the undegradable DM and CP fractions, but there was no significant difference between models for extent of degradation.
Journal of Dairy Science 09/2006; 89(8):3087-95. · 2.56 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: A mechanistic lactation model, based on a theory of mammary cell proliferation and cell death, was studied and compared to the equation of Wood (1967). Lactation curves of British Holstein Friesian cows (176 curves), Spanish Churra sheep (40 curves) and Spanish Murciano–Granadina goats (30 curves) were used for model evaluation. Both models were fitted in their original form using non-linear least squares estimation. The parameters were compared among species and among parity groups within species. In general, both models provided highly significant fits to lactation data and described the data accurately. The mechanistic model performed well against Wood's 1967 equation (hereafter referred to as Wood's equation), resulting in smaller residual mean square values in more than two-thirds of the datasets investigated, and producing parameter estimates that allowed appropriate comparisons and noticeable trends attributed to shape. Using Akaike or Bayesian information criteria, goodness-of-fit with the mechanistic model was superior to that with Wood's equation for the cow lactation curves, with no significant differences between models when fitted to goat or sheep lactation curves. The rate parameters of the mechanistic model, representing specific proliferation rate of mammary secretory cells at parturition, decay associated with reduction in cell proliferation capacity with time and specific death rate of mammary secretory cells, were smaller for primiparous than for multiparous cows. Greater lactation persistency of cows compared to goats and sheep, and decrease in persistency with parity, were shown to be represented by different values of the specific secretory cell death rate parameter in the mechanistic model. The plausible biological interpretation and fitting properties of the mechanistic model enable it to be used in complex models of whole-cow digestion and metabolism and as a tool in selection programmes and by dairy producers for management decisions.
Journal of Agricultural Science 148 (2010).
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ABSTRACT: Different mathematical models were evaluated as candidates to describe ruminal dry matter (DM) and crude protein (CP) degradation kinetics of raw and roasted whole soybeans from data obtained using the in situ polyester bag technique. Three models were used: segmented with up to 3 straight lines (model I), negative exponential (model II), and rational function or inverse polynomial (linear over linear; model III). A fourth, a generalized sigmoidal model, was also considered but the data did not exhibit sigmoidicity, so it was dropped from the analysis. Lagged and nonlagged versions of each model were fitted to the DM and CP disappearance curves of 6 different feeds (2 cultivars of raw or differently heat-processed whole soybean). The comparison between lagged and nonlagged versions of each model, based on statistical and behavior characteristics, showed for all models that the discrete lag parameter did not significantly improve the fit to ruminal DM and CP disappearance curves. The comparison between models (using nonlagged equations) showed that models I and II gave better goodness-of-fit than model III. Based on biological characteristics, models II and III underestimated the undegradable DM and CP fractions, but there was no significant difference between models for extent of degradation.
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