TY  - JOUR
TI  - Effects of Cleavers (Galium aparine) and Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) Extracts on Rumen Microbial Fermentation in In-vitro SemiContinuous Culture System (RUSITEC)
AB  - Experimental data on the effects of cleavers (Galium aparine) and yarrow (Achillea millefolium) extracts on rumen microbial fermentation arescarce. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of cleavers and yarrow extracts on in vitro ruminal fermentation. Incubationtrial was carried out using the long-term rumen simulation technique (RUSITEC). The experiment lasted 10 days. After an adaptation periodof 5 days, the fermentation vessels divided into 3 groups; first three vessels received no additives (control), second three vessels received 500mg/L cleavers extract daily, and third three vessels received 500 mg/L yarrow extract daily. Supplementations of cleavers and yarrow extractshad no significant effect on ruminal pH, total volatile fatty acids (VFA), acetate, propionate and methane production, NH3-N concentrationand, total protozoa. However, both extracts decreased dry matter digestibility (DMD) (P<0.05). Butyrate production, on the other hand,increased with cleavers extract (P<0.05). In conclusion, there were only small effects of cleavers and yarrow extracts on the investigatedmicrobial fermentation characteristics. Nevertheless, it may be considered advantageous for feed conversion that plant extracts did notsuppress ruminal fermentation in spite of decreasing DMD.
AU  - PEKCAN, MERT
AU  - PISKIN, İlksin
AU  - MUSA, Saad Ahmed Adam
AU  - Salgirli Demirbas, Yasemin
AU  - EMRE, Mehmet Bahri
AU  - Öztürk, Hakan
AU  - Toprak, Neşe
AU  - DEMIRTAS, Ahu
DO  - 10.9775/kvfd.2019.23283
PY  - 2020
JO  - Kafkas Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
SN  - 1300-6045
SP  - 385
EP  - 390
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/382197
ER  -