The Influence of Different Chemical Forms of Selenium Added to the Diet Including Carnosic Acid, Fish Oil and Rapeseed Oil on the Formation of Volatile Fatty Acids and Methane in the Rumen, and Fatty Acid Profiles in the Rumen Content and Muscles of Lambs
Lambs were divided into 3 groups of 6 animals each. For 35 days lambs were fed a diet including 2% rapeseed oil, 1% fish oil and 0.1% carnosic acid (the control group) or two experimental diets supplemented with 0.35 mg ∙ kg Se as selenized-yeast (SeY) (the SeY diet) or selenate (the selenate diet)....
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Published in | Acta veterinaria (Beograd) Vol. 66; no. 3; pp. 373 - 391 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
De Gruyter Open
01.09.2016
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Summary: | Lambs were divided into 3 groups of 6 animals each. For 35 days lambs were fed a diet including 2% rapeseed oil, 1% fish oil and 0.1% carnosic acid (the control group) or two experimental diets supplemented with 0.35 mg ∙ kg
Se as selenized-yeast (SeY) (the SeY diet) or selenate (the selenate diet). Muscles (
(
) and
(
)), ruminal fluids and microbiota were collected from each lamb. SeY supplementation most effectively stimulated the accumulation of straight-chain volatile fatty acids (VFAs),
branched-chain VFAs, CO
and CH
in the ruminal fluid. The contents of CO
, CH
and VFAs including straight-chain VFAs with the exception of
branched-chain VFAs were most effectively reduced by the selenite diet. The control diet most efficiently increased the concentration sums of
saturated fatty acids (
SFAs) and
SFAs in microbiota. The SeY diet most efficiently reduced acetic acid to propionic acid ratio in the ruminal fluid. The selenate diet improved animal performance by reducing ruminal concentrations of CH
and CO
. The SeY diet and especially the selenate diet reduced the biohydrogenation to C18:0 when compared with the control diet. The selenate diet more efficiently reduced the concentration sums of all SFAs (ΣSFAs) and all fatty acids (ΣFAs) in
and
than the SeY diet, which most effectively increased the concentrations of ΣSFAs and ΣFAs in
and
. The selenate diet most effectively increased the body mass gain of lambs. |
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ISSN: | 1820-7448 1820-7448 |
DOI: | 10.1515/acve-2016-0032 |