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In vitro evaluation of diets with increasing levels of dietary cation-anion difference positive in the production of gases, methane and kinetics of degradability with inoculum of rumen contents of buffaloes

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In vitro evaluation of diets with increasing levels of dietary cation-anion difference positive in the production of gases, methane and kinetics of degradability with inoculum of rumen contents of buffaloes 1 Avaliação in vitro de dietas com níveis crescentes de balanço cátion-anionico dietético positivo na produção de gases, metano e cinética de degradabilidade com inóculo de conteúdo ruminal de búfalos Resumo: Objetivou-se com este experimento avaliar a cinética de fermentação ruminal, através dos parâmetros da produção de gases totais e metano, degradabilidade da matéria seca e orgânica, produção de ácidos graxos de cadeia curta e nitrogênio amoniacal em 24 e 96 horas após a inoculação, mediante o uso da técnica de produção de gases in vitro, usando inoculo de conteúdo ruminal de bubalinos. Os tratamentos consistiram de três dietas catiônicas, com diferentes níveis de balanço cátion-aniônico dietético (BCAD) (+110, +220 e +440 mEq/kg de matéria seca). Para ajustar o BCAD dos tratamentos, adicionou-se sulfato de magnésio, sulfato de amônio, cloreto de cálcio, cloreto de magnésio e bicarbonato de sódio. Não foram observadas diferenças significativas entre os tratamentos em qualquer variável avaliada. As ausências de efeitos sugerem ações outras do BCAD sobre o metabolismo animal do que sobre o metabolismo ruminal na produção de efeitos sobre o desempenho produtivo dos animais. Abstract: The aim of this experiment was to evaluate the ruminal fermentation kinetics through the parameters of the production of total and methane gases, degradability of dry and organic matter, production of short chain fatty acids and ammonia nitrogen in 24 and 96 hours after inoculation, by using in vitro gas production technique with inoculum of buffalo rumen contents. The treatments consisted of three cationic diets with different levels of dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) (+110, +220 and +440 mEq/kg dry matter). To adjust the DCAD, magnesium sulfate, ammonium sulfate, calcium chloride, magnesium chloride and sodium bicarbonate were added according to treatments. No significant differences were observed among treatments in any variable evaluated. The findings suggest other actions of DCAD on animal metabolism than on ruminal metabolism to produce effects on the productive performance of the animals. Introduction Few studies evaluating the effects of detary cation-anion difference (DCAD) have been done in ruminal fermentation, especially with buffalo. Some of them have indicated no influence of DCAD in the rumen fermentation (APPER-BOSSARD et al., 2010). However, Sharif et al. (2010) observed improvement in rumen metabolism and kinetics of degradation. The aim of this experiment was to evaluate by in vitro gas production technique, the effects of three cationic diets with increasing levels of DCAD on ruminal fermentation kinetics, total and methane production gases, degradabilities of dry and organic matter, production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) and ammonia nitrogen (N-NH3) using inoculum of rumen contents of buffaloes.