 | Abstract 322Nitrogen metabolism in the rumen of buffalo calves fed on urea or non-urea iso-nitrogenous diets with oil as a source of energy.Kewalramani,-N; Gupta,-BN National Dairy Research Inst., Karnal-132001, India. Journal-of-Nuclear-Agriculture-and-Biology. 1985, 14: 3, 89-91; 25 ref. Addition of 300 g groundnut oil to the concentrate mixture of 3 fistulated buffalo calves increased bacterial production in the rumen non-significantly when compared with 6 calves not given oil. A similar result was obtained for calves given 40% of digestible crude protein as urea and oil 150 or 400 g added to concentrate. Bacterial production was less with urea in the diet. Oil in the diet had a sparing action on production of volatile fatty acids and thus affected bacterial protein synthesis slightly. This abstract relates to the following species: |