Effects of Varying Levels of Fungal (&lt;i&gt;Arachniotus&lt;/i&gt; sp.) Treated Wheat Straw as an Ingredient of Total Mixed Ration on Growth Performance and Nutrient Digestibility in Nili Ravi Buffalo Calves

Shahzad, Faisal; Abdullah, M.; Chaudhry, AS; Bhatti, J. A.; Jabbar, M. A.; Ahmed, Fayyaz; Mehmood, Tahir; Asim, M.; Ahmed, Samia A.; Kamran, Zahid; Irshad, Irfan; Tahir, Muhammad Naeem

doi:10.5713/ajas.15.0429

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“…The dry matter digestibility of fungal treated WS in our study was improved by 12% which was higher than that (7% and 10%) reported by Shahzad et al [10] and Fazaeli et al [26], respectively. Similar trend was observed in higher digestibility of crude protein, NDF, ADF and gross energy where the digestibility of these parameters were 27%, 28%, 2% and 12%, respectively (Table 2).…”

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“…Shahzad et al [10] showed that fungal treatment of WS increased CP and ash contents while cell wall contents were reduced. Similar effect of fugal treatment is on improving crude protein value in pea nut husk [22].…”

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“…This process resulted in improvement in dry matter digestibility and significant reduction in lignin content. The improvement in digestibility was influenced by type of fungi [10], temperature, content of water and concentration of nutrients [11] [12], composition of the gaseous phase and substrate pretreatment [13] [14].…”

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Upgrading of Raw Wheat Straw Applying Fungal Treatment

Zaazaa¹,

Faisal²,

Jamal³

2021

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The goal of this research was to improve the nutritive value of local wheat straw (WS) through treatment with fungi Pleurotus and to determine the nutrients digestibility using Daisy II technique. Results showed that fungal treated WS had more (P < 0.05) levels of dry matter (DM), ash and phosphorus (P) compared to the untreated WS. Moreover, fungal treatment had significant effect on reduction (P < 0.05) of crude fiber, acid detergent fiber (ADF) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF), and resulted in significant increase (P < 0.05) in crude protein (CP) content. Fungal treatment increased digestibility of DM, CP, NDF, ADF and gross energy (GE) by 12%, 27%, 28%, 2% and 12%, respectively. It can be concluded that fungal treatment has an advantage in upgrading raw WS.

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Upgrading of Raw Wheat Straw Applying Fungal Treatment

Zaazaa¹,

Faisal²,

Jamal³

2021

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“…RCK-1 instead of untreated wheat straw, both of which were fed ad libitum and supplemented with a concentrate. Shahzad et al (2016) also reported greater DMI and digestibility when white-rot fungi-treated wheat straw was used to replace 33% of the untreated wheat straw in a TMR fed to buffalo calves.…”

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Symposium review: Technologies for improving fiber utilization

Adesogan

Arriola

Jiang

et al. 2019

Journal of Dairy Science

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The forage lignocellulosic complex is one of the greatest limitations to utilization of the nutrients and energy in fiber. Consequently, several technologies have been developed to increase forage fiber utilization by dairy cows. Physical or mechanical processing techniques reduce forage particle size and gut fill and thereby increase intake. Such techniques increase the surface area for microbial colonization and may increase fiber utilization. Genetic technologies such as brown midrib mutants (BMR) with less lignin have been among the most repeatable and practical strategies to increase fiber utilization. Newer BMR corn hybrids are better yielding than the early hybrids and recent brachytic dwarf BMR sorghum hybrids avoid lodging problems of early hybrids. Several alkalis have been effective at increasing fiber digestibility. Among these, ammoniation has the added benefit of increasing the nitrogen concentration of the forage. However, few of these have been widely adopted due to the cost and the caustic nature of the chemicals. Urea treatment is more benign but requires sufficient urease and moisture for efficacy. Ammonia-fiber expansion technology uses high temperature, moisture, and pressure to degrade lignocellulose to a greater extent than ammoniation alone, but it occurs in reactors and is therefore not currently usable on farms. Biological technologies for increasing fiber utilization such as application of exogenous fibrolytic enzymes, live yeasts, and yeast culture have had equivocal effects on forage fiber digestion in individual studies, but recent meta-analyses indicate that their overall effects are positive. Nonhydrolytic expansinlike proteins act in synergy with fibrolytic enzymes to increase fiber digestion beyond that achieved by the enzyme alone due to their ability to expand cellulose microfibrils allowing greater enzyme penetration of the cell wall matrix. White-rot fungi are perhaps the biological agents with the greatest potential for lignocellulose deconstruction, but they require aerobic conditions and several strains degrade easily digestible carbohydrates. Less ruminant nutrition research has been conducted on brown rot fungi that deconstruct lignocellulose by generating highly destructive hydroxyl radicals via the Fenton reaction. More research is needed to increase the repeatability, efficacy, cost effectiveness, and onfarm applicability of technologies for increasing fiber utilization.

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“…These livestock species are resistant to endemic diseases, can survive in harsh environment and e ciently convert low quality forages into milk, meat and hide (Younas and Yaqoob, 2005). There is, however, a dire need of time to increase the production potential of the livestock to ful l the needs of rapidly growing population (Shahzad et al 2016).…”

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Effects of Replacement of Wheat Straw with Corn Stover Based TMR on Growth Performance, Behavioural Characteristics, selected Blood Metabolites and Nutrient Digestibility in Beetal Bucks.

Majeed

Ahmed

Rashid

et al. 2021

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An experiment was executed to determine the effects of replacing wheat straw with corn stover on growth performance, behavioural characteristics, blood metabolites and nutrient digestibility in Beetal bucks. A total of twenty four Beetal bucks were assigned randomly to one of three treatment groups, having eight animals each, for 15 weeks experimental period. The dietary treatments included conventional (25% wheat straw and 75% concentrate), corn stover 50 (Fifty percent of wheat straw (12.5%) was replaced with corn stover, and corn stover 100 (Wheat straw was completely replaced with corn stover). Dietary replacement of wheat straw with corn stover has resulted in an increased dry matter intake and average daily gain by 10 and 26%, respectively in the bucks. Rumen pH and fecal score, however, remained unaffected by dietary replacement of wheat straw with corn stover in the bucks. The replacement of wheat straw with corn stover has resulted in an increased feeding and rumination time, improved lying time and length and decreased number of bouts in the bucks. Blood glucose, urea, bilirubin and calcium levels were remained unaffected by replacing wheat straw with corn stover. The blood phosphorous level, however, was decreased in bucks fed corn stover based ration. The bucks fed corn stover based ration has resulted in an increased digestibility of nutrients including organic matter, crude protein, neutral and acid detergent fiber compared to those fed wheat straw based total mixed ration.

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Effects of Varying Levels of Fungal (<i>Arachniotus</i> sp.) Treated Wheat Straw as an Ingredient of Total Mixed Ration on Growth Performance and Nutrient Digestibility in Nili Ravi Buffalo Calves

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Upgrading of Raw Wheat Straw Applying Fungal Treatment

Upgrading of Raw Wheat Straw Applying Fungal Treatment

Symposium review: Technologies for improving fiber utilization

Effects of Replacement of Wheat Straw with Corn Stover Based TMR on Growth Performance, Behavioural Characteristics, selected Blood Metabolites and Nutrient Digestibility in Beetal Bucks.

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