Abstract
The present experiment was developed to compare ruminal fluid collected by ruminal cannula or esophageal probe and bovine feces in two dilutions, 200/200 (buffer/feces) or 100/300, as inoculum source, for the determination of in vitro (DAISYII/ANKOM® ) digestibility of wheat meal, ground corn, soybean and canola meal, and Coast-cross and Tifton 85 hay, with three replications. Different inoculum did not influence (p > 0.05) in vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD) of wheat meal and ground corn. However, the digestibility of soybean meal and Coast-cross hay with inoculum of feces dilution 200/200 was lower (p < 0.05) than that of the other food. In the case of canola meal and Tifton 85 hay, the IVDMD with inoculum from ruminal cannula and esophageal probe was better (p < 0.05) than the others. Except for canola meal and Tifton 85 hay, the bovine feces as an inoculum source (100/300) was efficient to evaluate IVDMD.
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