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Body-weight loss, blood and rumen fluid characteristics and nitrogen retention in lambs in negative energy balance offered diets with differing glucogenic potential

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

A. P. Moloney  and
W. Moore
A. P. Moloney
Affiliation:
Teagasc, Grange Research Centre, Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland
W. Moore
Affiliation:
Teagasc, Grange Research Centre, Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland
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Abstract

The effects of altering the glucogenic potential of the diet of wether lambs (initial body weight 56·4 kg) offered an energy allowance of 0·25 that required for maintenance on body-weight loss, nitrogen retention and blood and rumen fluid parameters were examined. Whole barley was offered alone or substituted on an isoenergetic basis with 40 or 120 g of a blend of glucose precursors (polyhydric alcohols, propylene glycol, sodium propionate) absorbed on to palm kernel meal (acetona meal), to 36 lambs (no. = 12 per treatment) for 8 weeks. Substituting barley with 40 g acetona meal had a small but non-significant effect in decreasing body-weight loss and plasma aspartate amino transferase activity and in increasing plasma insulin concentration. Increasing the glucogenic potential of the diet by substituting barley with 120 g acetona meal decreased body-weight loss in the early phase of the study, decreased plasma concentrations of non-esterified fatty acids and increased the proportion of propionate in volatile fatty acids in rumen fluid, plasma aspartate amino transferase and gamma-glutamyl transferase activities and plasma insulin concentrations. Increasing the glucogenic potential of the diet did not affect nitrogen retention or plasma glucose concentration. It is concluded that increasing the glucogenic potential of the diet of lambs resulted in an increase in metabolic efficiency at the onset of negative energy balance which was mediated through a change in plasma insulin concentration. The absence of a significant difference in body-weight loss between the diets in the latter part of the study reflects the lack of sustained ketosis.

Keywords

acetonaenergy balancegluconeogenesislambs
Type
Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , December 1994 , pp. 435 - 443
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1994

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