• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.259-264
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• 1993

Rice straw treated with anhydrous ammonia and/or sulphur dioxide was incubated with rumen liquor for 24 hours and 48 hours to investigate the changes in cell wall structure caused by the treatments and bacterial degradation using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). A less significant tissue loss of untreated rice straw was inspected after incubated for 24 hours and 48 hours. Sulphuration decreased the thickness of sclerenchyma and apparently removed parenchyma tissues. Ammoniation degraded the phloem, and the lignified inner portion of the cell wall was completely, however, little collapsed epidemis and vascular bundles. Ammonia and Sulphur dioxide combined treatment removed the inner layer from outer layer. The extent of apparent degradability following combination treatment was the largest due to the enhanced microbial degradation of sclerenchyma and parenchyma cells.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.1849-1857
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• 2007

The experiment was carried out using fistulated multiparous Holstein Friesian crossbred (75% Holstein Friesian and 25% Red Sindhi) dairy cows in their dry period fed on untreated rice straw to evaluate the nutritive value of local protein feed resources using the in sacco method and in vitro pepsin-pancreatin digestion. Experimental feeds were cottonseed meal (CSM); soybean meal (SBM); dried brewery's grains (DBG); palm kernel meal (PSM); cassava hay (CH); leucaena leaf meal (LLM). Each feedstuff was weighed into duplicate nylon bags and incubated in each of the two rumen fistulated cows for 0, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, and 48 h. Rumen feed residues from bags of 16 h incubation were used for estimation of lower gut digestibility by the technique of in vitro pepsin-pancreatin digestion. Ruminal ammonia-nitrogen ($NH_3-N$) concentrations did not differ between treatments or time with a mean of 5.5 mg%. Effective degradability of DM of CSM, SBM, DBG, PSM, CH and LLM were 41.9, 56.1, 30.8, 47.0, 41.1 and 47.5%, respectively. Effective degradabilities of the CP in feedstuffs were 49.6, 59.2, 40.9, 33.5, 47.3 and 65.0% for the respective feedstuffs. The CP in vitro pepsin-pancreatin digestibility as ranked from the highest to the lowest were SBM, CSM, LLM, CH, DBG, PSM, respectively. The intestinal and total tract digestion of feedstuffs in the current study were relatively lower than that obtained from previous literature. The results of this study indicate that SBM and LLM were highly degradable in the rumen, while CH, CSM and DBG were less degradable and, hence resulted in higher rumen undegradable protein. Soybean meal and LLM could be used to improve rumen ecology whilst CH, CSM and DBG could be used as rumen by-pass protein for ruminant feeding in the tropics.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.71-81
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• 2022

BACKGROUND: Animal manures are one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gases and improper manage-ment of animal wastes contributes to the increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Con-verting greenhouse gases generated from animal manures to energy is one way of contributing to the net-zero carbon emissions. METHODS AND RESULTS: The potential for methane production from cow manure (CM) was studied by measuring the methane yield using the biochemical methane potential (BMP) test. In particular, the effect of co-digestion using rice straw (RM) on the methane production was studied. The methane yields from the co-digestion of CM and RS were statistically similar to that from the mono-digestion of CM or RS. But there was a synergy effect at the CM:RS ratio of 1:2 and 1:1. This can be attributed to the increased C/N ratio. The changed microbial community structure with the addition of substrates (CM, RS) probably led to the increase in the methane produc-tion. CONCLUSION(S): The methane production potential of the particular CM used in this study was not improved by the addition of RS as a co-substrate. The addition of substrates to the anaerobic sludge promoted the increase in the microbial species having synergetic relationship with methano-gens, and this can partially explain the increase in the methane production with the addition of substrates. Overall, there are needs for further studies to improve the methane yield from CM.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.1397-1401
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• 2007

An in situ experiment was conducted to find out whether Tween 80 improves rice straw digestion through increased adhesion of major fibrolytic bacteria. Rice straw was sprayed with various levels of Tween 80 non-ionic surfactant or SDS ionic surfactant 24 h before incubation in the rumen of Holstein steers. Dry matter (DM) disappearance and adhesion of F. succinogenes, R. flavefaciens and R. albus on rice straw after in situ incubation were measured by real-time PCR. Application of Tween 80 increased DM disappearance, which was more noticeable at an application level of 1% compared to lower application levels. Application of SDS resulted in an opposite response in DM disappearance with highest reduction in DM disappearance at 1% level. In a subsequent in situ experiment, higher Tween 80 was applied to rice straw in an attempt to find the optimum application level. Tween 80 at 2.5% gave better DM disappearance than 1% with a similar result at 5%. Therefore, an adhesion study was carried out using rice straw treated with 2.5% Tween 80. Our results indicated that Tween 80 reduced adhesion of all three major rumen fibrolytic bacteria to rice straw. Present data clearly show that improved DM disappearance by Tween 80 is not due to increased bacterial adhesion onto substrates.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.115-121
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• 1989

A comparative slaughter feeding experiment with steer calves weighing 280 kg and a concurrent digestion trial with wether lambs was conducted to study the energy value of rice straw as influenced by ammonia treatment and mixing with alfalfa hay. Steers were ad libitum fed one of nine completely mixed experimental diets: basal (high concentrate); 25 or 50% of untreated rice straw (URS) or ammoniated (plastic covered bales, 4.6% $NH_3$ by weight) rice straw (ARS) proportionately replacing part of the basal; a 50:50 % mixture of URS or ARS and alfalfa replacing a proportion of the basal at 25 and 50%. Digestibility of the nine complete diets (pelleted to prevent sorting) was determined with four ad libitum fed lambs. Ammoniation increased crude protein level (from 3.6 to 10.8%) and in vitro dry matter digestibility of the rice straw by 15%. The improvement in DE, NEm and NEg by ammoniation of rice straw was 20, 52 and 117%, respectively. Ammoniation of rice straw fed as 50% of the diet improved gains over the diet containing 50% URS, but no significant influence on animal performance was observed when rice straw was fed at the 25% level. Each 10% addition of URS to basal diet decreased empty body gain of steers by 116 gram per day compared with a decrease of 70 gram per day when rice straw had been ammoniated. There was no beneficial effect of ammoniation when the roughage component of the diet was a 50:50 mixture of rice straw and alfalfa. Ammoniation of straw and inclusion of alfalfa generally increased the concentration of total volatile fatty acids in rumen fluid. Ammoniation resulted in reduced concentrations of acetic and propionic acid, but increased concentration of butyric acid. Digestibility of URS was improved by mixing with alfalfa. However, alfalfa hay did not influence digestibility of ARS. Diets in which ARS replaced the basal mixture at 25 and 50% had higher NEm and NEg values than comparable URS diets. The same pattern was observed in the straw: alfalfa mixtures, but differences between URS and ARS were significant only for the 50% roughage diets.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.807-817
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• 2008

Steers with ad libitum access to rice straw were assigned to four diets to evaluate the effects of maize or soybean hull supplementation on intake, in vivo digestibility, ruminal pH, VFA, ammonia-nitrogen ($NH_3-N$) and in situ ruminal disappearance of feed nutrients by cattle consuming rice straw. Supplement treatments were: no supplement (RS); soybean meal at 0.127% BW (SBM); cracked maize at 0.415% BW plus 0.044% BW soybean meal (MAIZE); or soybean hulls at 0.415% BW plus 0.044% BW soybean meal (HULLS). The MAIZE and HULLS diets were formulated to provide approximately 4 MJ of $NE_m$ per kg of diet. Rice straw DMI was not affected (p = 0.34) by supplement. Apparent dry matter (DM) digestibility was greater (p<0.001) for MAIZE and HULLS (56.6 and 60.0%, respectively) than for steers consuming SBM or RS (51.8 and 44.4%, respectively). Apparent NDF digestibility was greater (p<0.0004) for HULLS than MAIZE (61.7 vs. 58.0%, respectively) and apparent ADF digestibility was greater (p<0.0008) for HULLS than MAIZE (61.1 vs. 49.2%, respectively). There was no difference in apparent hemicellulose digestibility (p = 0.43). Analysis of ruminal fluid collected 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8 h post-feeding revealed ammonia-nitrogen was greatest (p<0.05) for steers on SBM and HULLS diets at 2 h (24.08 and 22.57 mg/dl, respectively) and total volatile fatty acids was greatest (p<0.05) for HULLS at 4 h (230 mM/L). In situ disappearance, measured at 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 16 and 24 h, indicated that SBM, MAIZE and HULLS tended to enhance the digestibility of DM and fiber components of rice straw. In situ disappearance of rice straw DM was greatest for SBM and/or HULLS from 4 to 24 h (p = 0.03). Rice straw NDF and ADF disappearance was enhanced by supplementation from 16 to 24 h (p<0.02). Rice straw DM, NDF and ADF disappearances at 24 h were similar for MAIZE and HULLS treatments. When feeding cattle rice straw diets, energy and protein-based supplements are essential. This study showed that fiber-based supplements are just as, if not more, effective as starch-based supplements in rice straw utilization. This study shows that soybean hulls, in spite of their high fiber content, are as efficient as maize for supplementing rice straw primarily because fiber in soybean hulls is highly digestible as shown by in vivo digestibility and in situ disappearance.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.427-434
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 볏짚과 토마토와 같은 농업부산물이 우분의 혐기성 소화를 통한 메탄 생성에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 각 기질을 단독 소화한 것과 혼합 소화한 것을 비교하였다. 우분의 경우 토마토와 병합 소화했을 때 우분 단독 소화 시보다 메탄 생성량이 증가하였고, 혼합 기질 내 토마토 함량이 중요한 역할을 하였다. 본 연구를 통해 농업부산물을 활용한 분뇨의 바이오가스화 향상 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.137-141
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• 1991

Rumen liquor characteristics and disappearance rate of dry matter were studied in Kedah-Kelantan cattle and swamp buffaloes fed grass of rice straw-based diet. Cobalt-EDTA and chromium mordented fibres prepared from the faecal material were used to determine the liquid and solid particles movement in both animal species fed with rice straw. Swamp buffaloes showed a more intense rumen fermentation activity than Kedah-Kelantan cattle when both species were fed straw-based diet. The buffaloes also demonstrated faster rates of grass and straw degradation in situ. The fluid outflow rate from the rumen of buffalo ($1.06{\pm}0.19l/h$) was observed to be slower than that of cattle ($1.55{\pm}0.01l/h$). No significant differences between cattle and buffaloes were observed in rumen fluid volume and passage rate of small particles from the rumen.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.41-49
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• 2013

본 연구는 효모(Saccharomyces cerevisiae)가 조사료의 반추위 미생물 분해 및 섬유소 분해 박테리아의 군집 변화에 미치는 관계를 검증하고자, 생효모 배양물 첨가 및 급여가 볏짚 소화율에 미치는 영향을 in vitro 및 in situ 실험을 통해 측정하였고, 볏짚 분해 시 볏짚 표면에 부착한 섬유소분해 박테리아 군집의 변화를 real-time PCR 방법을 이용하여 비교 분석하였다. 생효모 배양물의 첨가 수준(0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 및 1.0%)에 따른 볏짚의 in vitro 건물 소화율을 비교 하였을 때 첨가 수준이 증가 할수록 소화율도 점진적으로 높아 졌다. 특히, 생효모 배양물의 첨가 수준을 0.6% 이상으로 하였을 때 0.0, 0.2 및 0.4% 첨가보다도 확연한 소화율 증가를 보이기 시작하였다(p<0.05). 또한 효모배양물의 0.6% 첨가를 NaOH 4% 처리 볏짚 및 무처리 볏짚에 적용하여 소화율을 재평가하였을 때 두 가지 볏짚 모두에서 효모배양물 첨가에 의하여 볏짚 소화율이 유의적으로 증가하였다(p<0.05). 생효모 배양물을 한국재래산양에 실제 급여에 의한 볏짚의 in situ 건물소화율을 24 및 48 시간 후에 관측하였을 때 NaOH 무처리 볏짚의 효모배양물 비급여구의 소화율이 가장 낮았고, NaOH 무처리 볏짚의 효모배양물 급여구, 4% NaOH 처리 볏짚의 효모배양물 비급여구, 그리고 4% NaOH 처리 볏짚의 효모배양물 급여구 순으로 소화율이 유의적으로 각각 증가하였다(p<0.05). 이는 NaOH 무처리 볏짚 및 4% NaOH 처리 볏짚 모두에서 생효모 배양물 급여에 의하여 in situ 건물 소화율이 유의적으로 증가함을 보여준 것이다(p<0.05). 그리고 볏짚을 효모배양물의 두 가지 농도로 볏짚을 분무 처리하여 in situ 소화율과 볏짚 표면 부착 섬유소분해 박테리아(F. succiongenes, R. flavefaciens, R. albus)의 군집 변화를 측정하였을 때 효모배양물 처리 농도가 증가함에 따라 소화율도 유의적으로 높게 나타났고(p<0.05), 동시에 이들 박테리아의 볏짚 표면 부착 군집도 효모배양물의 처리 농도 증가에 따라 증가 하였다. F. succiongenes과 R. flavefaciens는 배양 12 및 24시간 모두 처리농도에 따라 군락의 수가 유의적으로 증가하였다(p<0.05). 그리고 R. albus도 배양 12 시간 처리농도에 따라 군락의 수가 유의적으로 증가하였고(p<0.05), 24 시간도 처리농도에 따라 증가 경향을 나타냈다. 따라서 본 연구는 효모 첨가는 조사료 소화율을 증진에 확실히 좋은 영향을 주며, 이것은 조사료 표면 부착 섬유소분해 박테리아의 군락 형성 증가에서 기인함을 보여준다고 사료된다.

• 한국초지조사료학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.345-350
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• 1998

본 시험은 우리나라의 조사료자원 확대 방안을 모색하는 노력의 일환으로 대부분의 축산농가에서 조사료원으로 이용하고 있는 볏짚의 생육기별에 따른 사료가치를 구명하기 위하여 1998년 4월부터 동년 11월까지 우석대학교 부속 시험포장에서 수행하였으며 그 결과는 다음과 같다. 1. 볏짚의 생육기별 섬유소와 조회분 함량은 벼의 생육이 진행됨에 따라 증가하였으며, 조단백질과 조회분 함량은 감소하였다. NDF 함량은 큰 변화가 없었다. 황숙기 이후 hemicellulose 함량은 크게 감소하였고, cellulose 및 lignin 함량은 증가하였다. 2. 볏짚의 성숙기별 NDF의 반추위 분해율은 출수기때 가장 빨랐고, 유숙기부터는 비슷한 경향을 보였다. ADF의 반추위 분해율은 성숙기별에 따라 큰 변화를 나타내지 않았다. 따라서 볏짚의 성숙에 따른 화학적 조성분의 변화와 반추위 분해율을 종합해 볼 때, 출수기까지의 볏짚은 아직 목질화가 완성되지 않아 섬유질의 반추위 분해속도도 빨랐고, 그 이후의 볏짚은 사료적 가치가 급속히 낮아진다고 할 수 있다.