Diets and lamb meat influenced by microbial inoculant and amylolytic enzyme

• Autor(a) principal: Lara, Erika Christina [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/151167
• topic: Amylase; Animal performance; Bacterial inoculant; Digestibility; Fatty acid profile; Desempenho animal; Digestibilidade; Enzimas amilolíticas; Inoculantes bacterianos; Perfil de ácidos graxos

This trial aimed to evaluate the effects of diets containing corn silage inoculated with Lactobacillus plantarum and Bacillus subtilis and supplemented or not with amylase on the apparent digestibility, ruminal fermentation and microbial protein synthesis of wethers as well as, the growth performance and meat quality of lambs. For that, two studies were carried out and in both studies the animals received one of four treatments (diets): 1) Corn silage uninoculated and without amylase added to TMR; 2) Corn silage uninoculated and amylase added to TMR; 3) Corn silage inoculated with 1×105 CFU LP [MA 18/5U] and 1×105 CFU BS [AT553098] without amylase added to TMR; 4) Corn silage inoculated with 1×105 CFU LP [MA 18/5U] and 1×105 CFU BS [AT553098] and amylase added to TMR. The enzyme utilized was amylase at the rate of 2 g of the product / kg of dietary dry matter (DM) (602 dextrinizing unit (DU)/kg of dietary DM). Amylase supplementation on the diet containing uninoculated silage increased (P=0.045) dry matter (DM) intake of wethers compared with wethers fed uninoculated silage without amylase supplementation (1,311 vs. 1,066 g/d), but not differed from others treatments. The apparent digestibility of DM, OM, CP, NDF and GE increased (P<0.01) in wethers fed with inoculated silages or supplemented with amylase, without interaction among inoculants and amylase. Wethers fed diets containing uninoculated silage and supplemented with amylase showed higher propionic acid and lower acetic acid proportion, with low acetic:propionic acid ratio, consequently. Microbial N supply tended to be higher (P=0.097) in wethers fed uninoculated silage with amylase supplementation and inoculated silage without amylase (8.01; 8.05 g/d). However, no effect was verified on the efficiency of microbial N synthesis. In the second study, lambs fed inoculated silage had higher NDF intake (P=0.019) than lambs fed uninoculated silage (266.5 vs 245 g/d). Lambs fed inoculated silage had higher average daily gain (P=0.019) when compared with lambs fed uninoculated silages (232.5 vs. 211.5). The inoculation of silage increased (P<0.05) the content of saturated fatty acid (SFA) and decreased (P<0.05) the unsaturated fatty acid (UFA) (47.55 vs. 46.21% and 52.44 vs. 53.79%, respectively) and consequently decreased the UFA:SFA ratio. The amylase supplementation at moment of feeding trended (P<0.10) to decrease the values of PUFA:SFA ratio (0.14 vs. 0.16). The association of amylase in diets containing inoculated silage did not provided positive responses on the digestibility and microbial N supply of wethers and did not alter the carcass and meat quality of lambs. Inoculation of silage with L. plantarum and B. subtilis improved the average daily gain of lambs when was not associated with amylase supplementation.