Supplementing NSP enzymes in high concentrate diets can prevent foamy rumen bloat in goats.

ABSTRACT: Ruminants fed high concentrate diets (HCD) are highly susceptible to foamy rumen bloat, but up to now the cause of rumen foam formation is unknown, making it difficult to prevent effectively. Exp. 1 of this study investigated the relationship between saccharide content in rumen fluid (RF) and foaming performance, and explored the effect of supplementing non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) enzymes to RF on foaming performance. The RF of 16 HCD-fed goats was used as experimental material to correlate RF viscosity, foaming performance, and saccharide content. Subsequently, the RF from 4 goats with severe rumen bloat was collected as experimental material, divided into 5 equal portions and randomly assigned to 5 treatment groups, namely adding 0, 100, 300, 500, and 700 mg/kg NSP enzymes to the RF

SUBMITTER: Tan Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11814141 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature