In-sacco Degradability of Dietary Combinations Formulated with Naturally Fermented Wheat Straw as Sole Roughage

Abstract

Processing of feedstuffsPreparation of naturally fermented wheat straw (FWS) : Urea and wheat straw (3.5:96.5) was moistened to 40 percent and stacked for 9 d natural fermentation. In a batch, 14 kg urea was dissolved in 200l water, uniformly sprinkled on 386 kg wheat straw, mixed and stacked for 9 days (Bakshi et al., 1987) before use.Preparation of uromol bran mixture (UBM) : Urea and molasses (1:3) were boiled for 30 min on slow heat and thereafter mixed with equal parts of deoiled rice bran, while the mixture was still hot.Dried poultry droppings (DPD) : Poultry droppings collected on polyethylene sheet kept under the cages of laying birds were dried in a forced air oven at 60°C for 48 h and ground.Deep stacked poultry litter (DSPL) : Rice husk based poultry litter collected from the shed of laying White Leghorn pullets was mixed and deep stacked in a shed for 28 days (Bakshi et al., 1995) before use. For the first 9 days, the stack temperature was recorded at 24 h interval, thereafter at 72 h interval for the next 19 days. Dietary combinationsTwenty-four dietary combinations were prepared by using FWS as sole roughage with different conventional or non-

Comparison of Different Alkali Treatment of Bagasse and Rice Straw

“…In contrast to the present finding, Fadel Elseed et al (2003) found an increase in DM degradation when 2% urea plus 0.5% Ca(OH) 2 was applied to rice straw. Similar results were reported with ammoniated rice straw (orden et al, 2000) and with different dietary combinations of nitrogen sources, including urea and molasses, dried poultry dropping and deep stacked poultry litter, formulated with naturally fermented wheat straw (Pannu et al, 2002). This is probably due to the higher NaOH inclusion rate.…”

Effect of Naturally Fermented Wheat Straw Based Complete Feeds on the Growth of Buffalo Calves

“…Keeping in view the queries raised at various forums that whether the nutrient requirements of different categories of ruminants could be met by supplementing FWS with either energy, protein or energy protein supplements in comparison to conventional concentrate mixture. Twenty-four dietary combinations using different feed ingredients supplemented to FWS in different roughage to concentrate ratio were evaluated (Pannu et al, 2002). The digestion kinetic studies revealed that FWS supplemented with N sources like uromol bran mixture (UBM), and deoiled mustard cake (DMC), energy source like maize (M) or energy protein supplement like M-DMC (50:50) in 70:30 ratio were considered quite promising.…”