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DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2021.110972
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Mastication; Digestion; Herbivore; Ruminant; Critical size threshold; Lactation
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [SU 124/16-1]
Increased feed intake in goats led to increased gut fill, decreased digesta retention times, and an increase in faecal particle size. However, there was no difference in mean particle size when assessed based on particles below the typical escape threshold. This suggests that the effect of intake on chewing efficiency in ruminants may be more related to large particle escape from the forestomach rather than a reduced chewing intensity per bolus.
On the one hand, oral processing - mastication - is considered a relatively inflexible component of mammalian feed acquisition that constrains instantaneous intake rates. On the other hand, experimental data shows that the level of feed intake affects faecal particle size and hence net chewing efficiency in ruminants, with larger particles occurring in the faeces at higher intakes. Here, we report the effect of an increased feed intake during maintenance (L1), late (200% of L1) and peak lactation (300% of L1) of a consistent diet (hay:concentrates 50:50) in eight domestic goats on various measures of digestive physiology including faecal mean particle size (MPS). Increasing intake led to an increased gut fill, a reduction in digesta retention times, and an increase in faecal MPS (from 0.57 to 0.72 mm). However, this was an effect of the large particle fraction (>2 mm) being disproportionately excreted at higher intakes; if MPS was assessed on the basis of particles below the typical escape threshold (<= 1 mm), there was no difference between intake levels. These findings suggest that the effect of intake on the calculated net chewing efficiency in ruminants may rather be an effect of increased large particle escape from the forestomach than a reduced chewing intensity per bolus during ingestion or rumination.
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