Raniere de Sá Paulino, Juliana Silva de Oliveira, Edson Mauro Santos, Gildênia Araújo Pereira, João Paulo de Farias Ramos, José Maria César Neto, Gabriel Ferreira de Lima Cruz, Guilherme Medeiros Leite, Fabiana Satake, Alex Lopes da Silva, Celso José Bruno de Oliveira
The physically effective neutral detergent fiber content alone has not been able to explain the appearance of diarrhea in ruminants fed diets with large volumes of spineless cactus, so the proliferation of enterobacteria in spineless cactus may be associated with cases of diarrhea in sheep. In the in vitro test, used two varieties of spineless cactus, both of which were chopped to particles of 4 and 2 cm2 . For the in vivo test, 15 lambs were allocated to three treatment groups, namely, spineless cactus crushed and immediately supplied to the animals; spineless cactus crushed 8 h before supply; and silage of spineless cactus...
February 16, 2021: Tropical Animal Health and Production