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      Elephant grass silages with or without wilting, with cassava meal in silage production Translated title: Características da silagem de capim-elefante previamente emurchecido e aditivado com farelo de mandioca

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          SUMMARY The experiment was developed to evaluate the effects of wilting and inclusion of cassava meal level on nutritive value, fermentative characteristics and losses of elephant grass silage. The 4 x 2 factorial scheme was adopted, with four repetitions, in a completely randomized design. The factors evaluated were wilting (without and with) and cassava meal level (0; 7.5; 15 and 22.5% of natural matter, DN). PVC silos with 50 cm height and 10 cm diameter were used for silages production, which were opened after 60 days. The wilting and cassava meal addition had increasing linear effect on DM content. Silages with cassava meal showed reduction of total nitrogen, ether extract, acid detergent insoluble nitrogen, neutral detergent fiber ash and protein free, acid detergent fiber, celluloses, hemicelluloses and lignin contents and increase of organic matter content, DM in vitro digestibility and total digestible nutrients. Relative to variables inherent to silages’ fermentative characteristics, pH presented quadratic behavior. Concerning to ammonia nitrogen, it was observed quadratic and decreasing linear behavior for silages without and with wilting, respectively. Wilting and cassava meal inclusion provided smaller effluent losses.

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          RESUMO O experimento foi desenvolvido para avaliar os efeitos do emurchecimento e da inclusão de níveis de farelo de mandioca sobre o valor nutritivo, as características fermentativas e as perdas por gases e efluente da silagem de capim-elefante. Foi adotado o esquema fatorial 4 x 2, com quatro repetições, no delineamento inteiramente casualizado. Os fatores avaliados foram níveis de farelo de mandioca (0; 7,5; 15 e 22,5 % da matéria natural, MN) e emurchecimento (com e sem). Foram usados silos de PVC, com 50 cm de altura e 10 cm de diâmetro para a produção das silagens, que foram abertos após 60 dias. O emurchecimento e a adição do farelo de mandioca tiveram efeito linear crescente sobre o teor de matéria seca (MS). As silagens com farelo de mandioca apresentaram redução dos teores de nitrogênio total, extrato etéreo, nitrogênio insolúvel em detergente ácido, fibra em detergente neutro isenta de cinzas e proteína, fibra em detergente ácido, celulose, hemicelulose e lignina e elevação do teor de matéria orgânica, da digestibilidade in vitro da MS e dos nutrientes digestíveis totais. No que concerne às características fermentativas das silagens, o pH apresentou comportamento quadrático. Quanto ao nitrogênio amoniacal, observou-se comportamento quadrático e linear decrescente para as silagens sem e com emurchecimento, respectivamente. O emurchecimento e a inclusão do farelo de mandioca propiciaram menores perdas por efluente. O emurchecimento e a adição de farelo de mandioca melhora o valor nutritivo e as características fermentativas das silagens estudadas.

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          Protein metabolism in the rumen is the result of metabolic activity of ruminal microorganisms. The structure of the protein is a key factor in determining its susceptibility to microbial proteases and, thus, its degradability. Ruminal protein degradation is affected by pH and the predominant species of microbial population. Ruminal proteolytic activity decreases as pH decreases with high-forage dairy cattle-type rations, but not in high-concentrate beef-type rations. Accumulation of amino acid (AA) N after feeding suggests that AA uptake by rumen microorganisms could be the limiting factor of protein degradation in the rumen. In addition, there are several AA, such as Phe, Leu, and Ile, that are synthesized by rumen microorganisms with greater difficulty than other AA. The most common assessment of efficiency of microbial protein synthesis (EMPS) is determination of grams of microbial N per unit of rumen available energy, typically expressed as true organic matter or carbohydrates fermented. However, EMPS is unable to estimate the efficiency at which bacteria capture available N in the rumen. An alternative and complementary measure of microbial protein synthesis is the efficiency of N use (ENU). In contrast to EMPS, ENU is a good measurement for describing efficiency of N capture by ruminal microbes. Using EMPS and ENU, it was concluded that optimum bacterial growth in the rumen occurs when EMPS is 29 g of bacterial N/kg of fermented organic matter, and ENU is 69%, implying that bacteria would require about 1.31 x rumen-available N per unit of bacterial N. Because the distribution of N within bacterial cells changes with rate of fermentation, AA N, rather than total bacterial N should be used to express microbial protein synthesis.
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            Silage microbiology and its control through additives

            Ensiling is a method of preserving a moist crop. A moist crop can support the growth of a wide range of microorganisms, most of which will degrade the nutrient value to livestock. However, ensiling generally controls microbial activity by a combination of an anaerobic environment and a natural fermentation of sugars by lactic acid bacteria on the crop. This fermentation and the resulting low pH primarily suppress the growth of other anaerobic microorganisms. The fermentation can also inhibit yeasts, molds and aerobic bacteria, but the anaerobic environment is essential to preventing most of the spoilage microorganisms from growing. Inoculants have become the dominant additives for making silage. Homofermentative strains help guarantee a rapid suppression of anaerobic stains early in storage, increase dry matter recovery and have improved animal performance by means that we do not fully understand. Inoculants containing Lactobacillus buchneri, a heterofermentative species capable of fermenting lactic acid to acetic, are recent additives. The added acetic acid inhibits yeast and mold growth, increasing aerobic stability of silages at feeding.
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                Journal
                rbspa
                Revista Brasileira de Saúde e Produção Animal
                Rev. bras. saúde prod. anim.
                UFBA - Universidade Federal da Bahia (Salvador, BA, Brazil )
                1519-9940
                July 2017
                : 18
                : 3
                : 417-429
                Affiliations
                [1] Maceió orgnameUniversidade Federal de Alagoas orgdiv1Campus Arapiraca Brazil
                [4] Ilhéus Bahia orgnameUniversidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Brazil
                [3] Vitoria da Conquista orgnameUniversidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia orgdiv1Departamento de Zootecnia Brazil
                [2] Viçosa Minas Gerais orgnameUniversidade Federal de Viçosa orgdiv1Departamento de Zootecnia Brazil
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                S1519-99402017000300417
                10.1590/s1519-99402017000300002
                fb258d94-7dd2-456a-aa91-ad49c90a8ada

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                : 12 June 2017
                : 09 November 2016
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