Comparison of indigestible markers from in situ and in vivo incubation to predict apparent digestibility in hay- and corn-fed horses


Autoria(s): Oliveira, Kátia de; Bittar, Carla Maris Machado; Costa, Ciniro; Oliveira, Vinícius Antonio Baptista; Sá, Janaina Carolina de
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UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

Data(s)

04/11/2013

04/11/2013

2012

Resumo

Four castrated crossbred horses were used in a randomized block design to study the use of indigestible internal markers iNDF and iADF obtained in situ (from bovines) or in vivo (from equines). Treatments consisted of determining digestibility by the direct method comprising total feces collection (TC) and by the indirect method comprising internal markers iNDF and iADF obtained by in situ incubation in bovine rumen or in vivo by the mobile nylon bag (MNB) technique with horses. iNDF-IV and iADF-IV resulted in better marker recovery rate (RR) (91.50%), similar to TC. The in situ technique resulted in lower RR values for the two indigestible markers, averaging 86.50% (p < 0.05). Estimates of the nutrient coefficient of digestibility (CD) were adequately predicted by iADF-IV, for horses fed on hay exclusively, with rates 46.41, 48.16, 47.92 and 45.51% for dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), FDN and gross energy, respectively. Results show that MNB may be used to obtain iADF in horses fed on coast-cross hay exclusively, whereas NDFi and ADFi were selected for horses fed on mixed diets to predict the coefficient of nutrient digestibility.

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Acta Sci., Anim. Sci., v.34, n.1, p.27-33, 2012

1807-8672

http://www.producao.usp.br/handle/BDPI/40474

10.4025/actascianimsci.v34i1.10572

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-86722012000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1807-86722012000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&pid=S1807-86722012000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en

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eng

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Editora da Universidade Estadual de Maringá - EDUEM

Relação

Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences

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openAccess

Palavras-Chave #equine #internal marker #indirect method #mobile nylon bag #equino #indicador interno #método indireto #saco de náilon móvel
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article

original article