Micorbial colonization and digestion of feed materials in cattle and buffaloes II. rice straw and palm press fibre

• Main Authors: Abdullah, Norhani, Ho, Yin Wan, Jalaludin, S.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies 1992
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50009/1/Micorbial%20colonization%20and%20digestion%20of%20feed%20materials%20in%20cattle%20and%20buffaloes%20II.%20rice%20straw%20and%20palm%20press%20fibre.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/50009/; http://www.ajas.info/journal/view.php?number=18704
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Degradation of rice straw was observed to be higher (p<0.01) in the buffaloes than in cattle. At 48 h, the dry matter (DM) loss of straw for buffaloes was 53.6 ± 0.8% and that for cattle was 48.7 ± 2.6%. Palm press fibre (PPF) was poorly degraded in the rumen of both animal species. A loss of abo...