The rumen and its adaptation to salt

A. A. Degen; Victor R. Squires

doi:10.1201/b19862

The rumen and its adaptation to salt

A. A. Degen, Victor R. Squires

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Abstract

This chapter considers the functioning of the rumen and its role in digestion and processing of salty feedstuffs. Experience with feeding salt tolerant and halophytic feedstuffs demonstrates that as a result of fermentation, ruminants are able to convert poor quality feed sources such as halophytic feedstuffs, which are unusable or poorly usable by non-ruminants, to high quality meat, milk and fi ber. Ruminants usually receive much less of their energy from lipids than do non-ruminants.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Halophytic and Salt-Tolerant Feedstuffs
Subtitle of host publication	Impacts on Nutrition, Physiology and Reproduction of Livestock
Publisher	CRC Press
Pages	336-347
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781498709217
ISBN (Print)	9781498709200
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1201/b19862
State	Published - 1 Jan 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Anatomy
Apparent digestibility
Camels
Cattle
Fermentation
Goats
Horses
Non-protein nitrogen
Non-ruminants
Particle size
Rate of passage
Rumen microflora
Salivation
Salt intake
Secondary plant metabolites

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General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Engineering

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