Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
ISSN: Online 1993-601XISSN: Print 1680-5593
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This study was performed with the purpose of investigating effect of additional blend of probiotics Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus acidophilus on plasma fatty acid profiles particularly Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) in growing goats fed corn silage and selected the optimal levels of the probiotics for further study. Twenty four growing crossbred (Thai native x Anglo-Nubian) goats that weighed (14.2±2.3) kg, aged about 6 months were purchased and allocated to 4 treatments according to Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with 6 goats in each treatment. The blocks were made by weight into heavy, medium and light goats and each of the treatments contained two goats from each of the blocks. In the mean time, ruminal average pH unaffected but the NH3-N and also plasma urea nitrogen (p<0.05), total volatile fatty acid (p>0.05) were raised but propionic proportion (p<0.05) and butyric proportion (p>0.05) were reduced in concurrent with raise of acetic proportion and resultantly C2:C3 ratio (p>0.05). On plasma fatty acid profiles, total saturated fatty acids (p>0.05) was increased and contrasted with decrease of C15:0 (p<0.01), C16:0 (p>0.05) and C18-C22 poly unsaturated fatty acids (p<0.05 or p<0.01). In addition, the experiment proved that the supplemented probiotics was in force for heightening CLA (p<0.01) for raising desirable fatty acids (p<0.05); for reducing ratio of PUFA: SFA (p>0.05) and for raising ratio of n6:n3 (p<0.05).
How to cite this article:
P. Paengkoum, H. Yong, S. Traiyakun and J. Khotsakdee. Effect of Blend Probiotics on Rumen Fermentation and Plasma Fatty Acid Contents and Plasma n6:n3 Ratios of Growing Goats.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/javaa.2011.3112.3117
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