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Effects of milk replacer feeding level on growth performance, rumen development and the ruminal bacterial community in lambs

Feeding with a suitable level of milk replacer (MR) can improve the survival rate and stimulate the growth potential of early lambs. However, feeding excessive MR might be detrimental to rumen development and microbial colonization. Herein, we investigated the effects of feeding different levels of...

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Autores principales: Huang, Yongliang, Wang, Guoxiu, Zhang, Qian, Chen, Zhanyu, Li, Chong, Wang, Weimin, Zhang, Xiaoxue, Wang, Xiaojuan, Zhang, Deyin, Cui, Panpan, Ma, Zongwu
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9871810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36704552
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1069964
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author Huang, Yongliang
Wang, Guoxiu
Zhang, Qian
Chen, Zhanyu
Li, Chong
Wang, Weimin
Zhang, Xiaoxue
Wang, Xiaojuan
Zhang, Deyin
Cui, Panpan
Ma, Zongwu
author_facet Huang, Yongliang
Wang, Guoxiu
Zhang, Qian
Chen, Zhanyu
Li, Chong
Wang, Weimin
Zhang, Xiaoxue
Wang, Xiaojuan
Zhang, Deyin
Cui, Panpan
Ma, Zongwu
author_sort Huang, Yongliang
collection PubMed
description Feeding with a suitable level of milk replacer (MR) can improve the survival rate and stimulate the growth potential of early lambs. However, feeding excessive MR might be detrimental to rumen development and microbial colonization. Herein, we investigated the effects of feeding different levels of MR on rumen digestive function and ruminal microorganisms. Fourteen healthy male Hu lambs with similar birth weights and detailed pedigree records were divided into two groups to receive low (2% of average body weight per day) and high (4% of average body weight per day) levels of MR. We analyzed the effects of the MR feeding level on growth performance, fiber degradation rates, rumen fermentation parameters, enzyme activities and rumen histomorphology. We found that feeding with a high level of MR improved the average daily gain of early lambs, but decreased the starter intake, rumen weight and papillae length. We also analyzed the effects of the MR feeding level on the rumen microbiota using 16S-rRNA amplicon sequencing data. The results showed that high a MR feeding level increased the rumen microbial diversity but decreased the abundance of many carbohydrate degrading bacteria. Several bacterial genera with significant differences correlated positively with rumen cellulase activity and the acid detergent fiber degradation rate. Our results suggested that a high level of MR could improve the growth performance of early lambs in the short term; however, in the long term, it would be detrimental to rumen development and have adverse effects on the adaptation process of the microbiota to solid feed.
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spelling pubmed-98718102023-01-25 Effects of milk replacer feeding level on growth performance, rumen development and the ruminal bacterial community in lambs Huang, Yongliang Wang, Guoxiu Zhang, Qian Chen, Zhanyu Li, Chong Wang, Weimin Zhang, Xiaoxue Wang, Xiaojuan Zhang, Deyin Cui, Panpan Ma, Zongwu Front Microbiol Microbiology Feeding with a suitable level of milk replacer (MR) can improve the survival rate and stimulate the growth potential of early lambs. However, feeding excessive MR might be detrimental to rumen development and microbial colonization. Herein, we investigated the effects of feeding different levels of MR on rumen digestive function and ruminal microorganisms. Fourteen healthy male Hu lambs with similar birth weights and detailed pedigree records were divided into two groups to receive low (2% of average body weight per day) and high (4% of average body weight per day) levels of MR. We analyzed the effects of the MR feeding level on growth performance, fiber degradation rates, rumen fermentation parameters, enzyme activities and rumen histomorphology. We found that feeding with a high level of MR improved the average daily gain of early lambs, but decreased the starter intake, rumen weight and papillae length. We also analyzed the effects of the MR feeding level on the rumen microbiota using 16S-rRNA amplicon sequencing data. The results showed that high a MR feeding level increased the rumen microbial diversity but decreased the abundance of many carbohydrate degrading bacteria. Several bacterial genera with significant differences correlated positively with rumen cellulase activity and the acid detergent fiber degradation rate. Our results suggested that a high level of MR could improve the growth performance of early lambs in the short term; however, in the long term, it would be detrimental to rumen development and have adverse effects on the adaptation process of the microbiota to solid feed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9871810/ /pubmed/36704552 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1069964 Text en Copyright © 2023 Huang, Wang, Zhang, Chen, Li, Wang, Zhang, Wang, Zhang, Cui and Ma. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Microbiology
Huang, Yongliang
Wang, Guoxiu
Zhang, Qian
Chen, Zhanyu
Li, Chong
Wang, Weimin
Zhang, Xiaoxue
Wang, Xiaojuan
Zhang, Deyin
Cui, Panpan
Ma, Zongwu
Effects of milk replacer feeding level on growth performance, rumen development and the ruminal bacterial community in lambs
title Effects of milk replacer feeding level on growth performance, rumen development and the ruminal bacterial community in lambs
title_full Effects of milk replacer feeding level on growth performance, rumen development and the ruminal bacterial community in lambs
title_fullStr Effects of milk replacer feeding level on growth performance, rumen development and the ruminal bacterial community in lambs
title_full_unstemmed Effects of milk replacer feeding level on growth performance, rumen development and the ruminal bacterial community in lambs
title_short Effects of milk replacer feeding level on growth performance, rumen development and the ruminal bacterial community in lambs
title_sort effects of milk replacer feeding level on growth performance, rumen development and the ruminal bacterial community in lambs
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9871810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36704552
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1069964
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