In Vitro Digestibility and Models of Cumulative Gas Production of Forage-Free Diet

• Published in: Animals (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 22; p. 3515
• Main Authors: Ítavo, Luís Carlos Vinhas, Gurgel, Antonio Leandro Chaves, Ferreira Ítavo, Camila Celeste Brandão, Cunha, Camila Soares, Longhini, Vanessa Zirondi, Difante, Gelson dos Santos, Dias, Alexandre Menezes, Santana, Juliana Caroline Santos, Arcanjo, Angelo Herbet Moreira, Niwa, Marcus Vinicius Garcia, Nonato, Lucimara Modesto, Tadeu dos Santos, Geraldo, Chay-Canul, Alfonso Juventino
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01-11-2023
• Subjects: Beef cattle; Corn; cumulative gas production; Diet; digestibility; effective fiber; Fermentation; Mathematical models; Natural gas; nonlinear models; Nutrients; Production data; Silage; Brazil; United States > US; Macedon
• ISSN: 2076-2615; 2076-2615
• DOI: 10.3390/ani13223515

Our objectives were to evaluate the use of cottonseed cake in replacing corn silage in a diet without forage and to identify the model with higher precision and accuracy of adjustment of parameters of ruminal degradation kinetics. A diet containing corn silage and another with cottonseed cake as a fiber source were formulated. Gompertz, Dual-pool Logistic, Brody, and Ørskov models were evaluated for goodness of fit to gas production. There were significant differences in dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) in the in vitro digestibility for diets and fiber sources. The estimated values of the Gompertz (6.77), Brody (6.72), and Ørskov (6.73) models were similar to the observed mean of gas production in the corn silage diet (6.73 mL/100 mg DM). Similarly, the estimated values of the Brody (5.87) and Ørskov (5.89) models were similar to the observed mean of gas production in the cottonseed cake diet (5.87 mL/100 mg DM). The roughage-free diet containing cottonseed cake as a fiber source stimulated higher gas production. Brody and Ørskov models presented higher precision and accuracy in the fitting of kinetics of degradation independent of the fiber source in the diet.