Practical monitoring of enteric production from individual ruminants

Abstract

Monitoring enteric methane production with portable accumulation chambers | 37 HighlightsPortable accumulation chambers are well suited to rank small ruminants according to their methane production rates.If uncalibrated, portable accumulation chambers are not suited to record absolute methane production levels.Recovery tests are an effective way to assess the accuracy of devices monitoring gaseous exchanges freely of extraneous factors.