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The effects of concentrate added to pineapple (Ananas Comosus linn. Mer.) waste silage in differing ratios to form complete diets, on digestion, excretion of urinary purine derivatives and blood metabolites in growing, male, Thai swamp buffaloes

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Four, male, growing Thai swamp buffaloes (197 ± 5.3 kg and all 1 year old) were used to evaluate the effects of concentrate added to pineapple waste silage in differing ratios, to form a complete diet, studying in vivo digestion, the rate of passage, microbial protein synthesis and blood metabolites. Animals were fed ad libitum with 4 diets, using four combinations of pineapple waste silage (P) and concentrate (C), in the proportions (on a dry matter basis) of 0.8:0.2 (P80:C20), 0.6:0.4 (P60:C40), 0.4:0.6 (P40:C60) and 0.2:0.8 (P20:C80). The results showed that the intakes of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), nitrogen (N), the N-balance, urinary purine derivatives (PD) excretion, the ratios of allantoin to creatinine (CR), PD to CR, the plasma urea-N (PUN) and insulin increased in the animals, but the intake of neutral detergent fiber (NDF), the coefficient of whole tract, apparent digestibility of NDF, the transit time (TT) and the mean retention time (TMRT) decreased, when the proportion of concentrate in the diet increased. This study indicated that the proportion of P40:C60 in the diet produced the best efficiency of urinary PD excretion (mmol) per digestible OM intake (kg DOMI).

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The authors wish to thank to Prof. Dr. Narongsak Chaiyabutr, Associate Prof. Dr. Thongchai Chaleamchaikit and Department of Husbandry, Faculty of Veterinary Science, for providing metabolic cages and the facilities for the present study. The authors also indebted to Associate Professor Dr. Qium Balcells of Departmento de Produccion Animal y Ciencia de los Alimentos, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Zaragoza, Miguel Servet 177, Spain for his valuable guidance and advice in the present study.

The project was funded by a Thai government budget under the Project (EFF 7/02548-01).

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    T. Jetana, W. Suthikrai, S. Usawang & S. Sophon

  2. Feed and Forage Analysis Section, Animal Nutrition Division, Department of Livestock, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, Phathumthani, 12000, Thailand

    C. Vongpipatana

  3. Department of Animal Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, 43400, Malaysia

    J. B. Liang

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Jetana, T., Suthikrai, W., Usawang, S. et al. The effects of concentrate added to pineapple (Ananas Comosus linn. Mer.) waste silage in differing ratios to form complete diets, on digestion, excretion of urinary purine derivatives and blood metabolites in growing, male, Thai swamp buffaloes. Trop Anim Health Prod 41, 449–459 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-008-9207-5

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