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The effect of frequency of feeding on the flow and composition of duodenal digesta in sheep given straw-based diets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

F. Thompson
F. Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology and Environmental Studies, University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leics.
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Abstract

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1. The effect of feeding sheep at two different frequencies (once hourly and once daily) on the flow of digesta, dry matter, and starch to the duodenum was assessed by fitting sheep with re-entrant cannulas in the proximal duodenum and giving them, at each feeding frequency, rations differing in the particle size of the roughage component.

2. Frequent feeding resulted in a less variable daily pattern of flow of digesta and a significant increase (P < 0·01) in the total daily volume flowing to the duodenum. Altering the particle size of the ration did not affect the flow of digesta at either feeding frequency.

3. The pattern of flow of dry matter followed very closely that of the flow of digesta, but there was a significant (P < 0·001) interaction between feeding frequency and particle size of the ration which affected the flow of starch to the duodenum. As a result, more starch entered the duodenum when both the frequency of feeding and the particle size of the ration were increased.

Type
General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , July 1973 , pp. 87 - 94
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1973

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