چكيده لاتين :
18
مهرام
ي
ر
ي
، چاج
ي
... و
نشريه پژوهش
هاي علوم دامي/ جلد
2
7
شماره
3
/
سال
1396
Effect of
replacement of the mung
bean
straw
(
Vigna radiate
)
with wheat straw
or
low grain
-
corn silage
on digestibility and some blood and ruminal parameters
in
Arabi lambs
I Mehramiri
1
, M Chaji
2*
, S Tabatabai Vakili
2
, T Mo
hammadabadi
2
and
M Sari
2
Received:
24 December
201
5
Accepted:
17
September
201
6
1
MSc Graduated Student, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Animal Sciences and food
industries, Ramin Agriculture and National Resources University of Khouzest
an, Molasani, Ahvaz, Iran
2
Associate Professors, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Animal Sciences and food industries,
Ramin Agriculture and National Resources University of Khuzestan, Ahvaz, Iran
*
Corresponding author: Email: chaji@ramin.ac.ir
In
troduction
:
The dry and semi
-
arid climates and the deficiency of
rainfall
in Iran have led to
increasing the nutrition cost, which will be affected the incomes of animal farm
er
s. In recent
decades, demand for livestock products
(like meat and milk)
has gro
wn because of population
growth and economic progress. In order to reduce feed costs, in ma
ny countries, crop residues are
used as agricultural by
-
product in feeding of farm animal, includ
ing
mung bean
straw. Mung bean
is a plant that has been cultivated i
n the arid and semi
-
arid regions of Iran and elsewhere in the
Middle East. This plant is important because of the ability to stabilize nitrogen in the soil, to
strengthen and prevent its erosion. Most of the nutrition studies that have been done in relatio
n to
mung beans have been more focused on mushy seed, but few studies have been conducted on mung
bean straw. Therefore,
t
he present experiment was conducted to study the effects of replacing mung
be
a
n straw with wheat straw or corn silage on digestibility
,
rumen
fermentation and protozoa
population in Arabic lambs.
Material and methods:
The present experiment was conducted in two steps. The first step was to
determine the appropriate level of replacing the mung bean straw with wheat straw or corn silage i
n
the diet using a gas production te
chnique
. In the second step, by examining the results of the first
stage of the experiment, some levels of replacing mung bean straw instead of wheat straw and corn
silage were selected and digestion and metabolism of di
ets were investigated.
After determining the
appropriate level of replacing mung
bean
straw with wheat straw and corn silage
in diet,
16
lambs
fed with selected diets from first step
.
The experimental diets
included: diet without mung
bean
straw (control
r
ation
), 100% replacing of mung
bean
straw with wheat straw (ration 1)
,
25
and 50
%
replacing of mung bean straw instead of corn silage (
rations
2
and 3 respectively
) were fed in a
completely randomized design.
In order to estimate blood and rum
i
n
al
fermenta
tion parameters, and
protozoa population count at the end of the experiment, rumen fluid and blood was taken from the
lambs
3 and 4 h
after the morning feeding
, respectively
.
R
esults and discussion
:
Mung bean
straw had a higher crude protein and crude fa
ts than wheat
straw and more crude fat than corn silage. While the crude protein content of corn silage was higher
than
mung bean
straw. Although no statistical analysis was performed, protein content, NDF, ADF,
ME
mung bean
and corn silage had a slight di
fference, but differences were considerable with
wheat straw. Wheat straw had the highest amount of NDF, ADF and lignin and the lowest amount
of crude fat and ME. Mung bean straw had the highest amount of fat
.
In one experiment, mung bean
straw had 88.20%
dry matter, 9.70% crude protein, 26.56% crude fiber, 2.39% crude fat and
11.43% ash in dry matter base (Khatik et al. 2007), the data of present experiment was closely same
with them
.
Based on the results of chemical analysis, wheat straw or corn silage we
re detected as a
suitable replacement for mung bean straw in diet.
In the first step of study, replacing mung
bean
straw with wheat straw in the diets, for all levels (25 to 100%)
increased
the potential of gas
production
(GP)
compared to control (
P<0.05
).
T
he diet contains
25% of
replacing
mung
bean straw instead of corn silage
increased and
100% replac
ement
decreased
GP
(P
<0.05
).
Microbial
bio
mass production efficiency in all
mung
bean
straw replaced with corn silage diets were
higher
compared to control
(
P<0.05
).
The reason for the reduction of gas production in diet
contain
100%
mung bean straw replaced with corn silage
,
may be attributed to higher amounts of NDF (52.2%)
and ADF (52.2%) in mung bean straw than corn silage. The researchers reported that t
here is a
significant negative correlation between NDF and ADF and the volume of produced gas (Haddi et
al. 2003), and the negative effect of cell wall (cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin) on gas production
can be due to decreased microbial activity.
Howe
ver,
the data in Table 2 on the chemical
composition of these
products
showed that there was difference
for
amount
of
lignin and fat
between
mung bean straw and the corn
silage. Therefore
, the reason for the decrease in gas
production can be attributed to
these factors. Fats, especially unsaturated oils, have a negative effect
on fiber digestion by covering surface of fibers or cellulolytic bacteria
.
The results of
in vivo
study
showed that ration
1
had the highest feed intake and nutrient digestibility (P<
0.05). The
re was not
difference for rumen
ammonia nitrogen and blood parameters between diets (P
>0.05
).
Only the
rumen fluid pH in the diet 3 had significant difference with control and was the lowest amount
(P<0.05). Rumen protozoan population was lower i
n diets containing corn silage
(rations 2 and 3)
,
as compared to control
(P<0.05).
C
onclusion
:
Therefore,
due to
proper price
and abundance of mung
bean
straw in some regions of
the Iran
included Khuzestan province
,
we can recommend
using
it as replacemen
t for wheat straw
or low
-
grain corn silage
in feeding of sheep.