Profiling of rumen fermentation, microbial population and digestibility in goats fed with dietary oils containing different fatty acids

• DOI: 10.1186/s12917-018-1672-0
• Publication Date: 2018-12-17T07:09:47Z
• Authors: I. Nur Atikah; A. R. Alimon; H. Yaakub; N. Abdullah; M. F. Jahromi; M. Ivan; A. A. Samsudin
• Keywords: Sunflower oil

The effects of the dietary oils with differing fatty acid profiles on rumen fermentation, microbial population, and digestibility in goats were investigated. In Experiment I, population fermentation evaluated 16 fistulated male that randomly assigned to four treatment groups: i) control (CNT), ii) olive oil (OL), iii) palm olein (PO), iv) sunflower (SF). II, another group was same treatments for determination. Rumen ammonia concentration higher CNT compared groups receiving oils. total VFA acetate SF OL groups, which showed they significantly affected by treatments. There no differences population. However, fibre degrading bacteria populations interaction between day sampling. Significant observed apparent crude protein ether extract containing group. This study demonstrated supplementation different improved reducing increasing concentration, altering improving extract.