Effect of different levels of Ipomoea batatas flour inclusion on the ruminal pH of sheep in metabolic cages

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dc.creatorEdgard Gonçalves Malaguez
dc.creatorMauricio Cardozo Machado
dc.creatorKauani Borges Cardoso
dc.creatorMarcio Nunes Corrêa
dc.creatorCássio Cassal Brauner
dc.creatorAntônio Amaral Barbosa
dc.creatorGilberto Vilmar Kozloski
dc.creatorFrancisco Augusto Burkert Del Pino
dc.date2021
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:59:08Z
dc.descriptionThe accumulation of industrial by-products increases the use of sweet potato waste for ruminants, but ruminal pH characteristics are still not well known. The objective was to assess the fluctuation of ruminal pH in sheep supplemented with different levels of sweet potato flour inclusion in their diet. Four rumen-fistulated sheep were used; they were fed a diet based on ryegrass haylage (Lolium multiflorum) and sweet potato flour (Ipomoea batatas), provided according to the level of inclusion in the total diet (0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5%). Approximately 80 ml of ruminal fluid was collected for reading on a bench pH meter. Statistical data analysis was run on Statistical Analysis System (SAS Institute INC. Cary, NC, USA), and statistical difference was considered for p < 0.05. The animals that received 1.5% of sweet potato flour in their diet presented acid rumen pH; the 1.0% group presented rumen pH acidification in the first 6 hours after feeding, and the 0.5% level of inclusion did not change the rumen environment. It is concluded that the inclusion of 0.5% sweet potato flour in sheep diet proved to be an efficient energy supplementation strategy.
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dc.identifier10.4025/actascianimsci.v43i1.52278
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/449581
dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidade Estadual de Maringá
dc.relationhttp://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3031
dc.rightsActa Scientiarum. Animal Sciences
dc.sourceActa Scientiarum. Animal Sciences (Brasil) Vol.43
dc.subjectAgrociencias
dc.titleEffect of different levels of Ipomoea batatas flour inclusion on the ruminal pH of sheep in metabolic cages
dc.typeartículo científico

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