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Intake and utilization of food by growing sheep with abomasal damage caused by daily dosing with Ostertagia circumcincta larvae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

A. R. Sykes  and
R. L. Coop
A. R. Sykes
Affiliation:
Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, EH17 7JH
R. L. Coop
Affiliation:
Moredun Research Institute, Edinburgh, EH17 7JH
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Summary

Four groups of eight sheep, 4 months of age and reared parasite-free from birth, were used to investigate the effect of the abomasal parasite Ostertagia circumcincta on the intake and efficiency of utilization of food. One group (CI) was killed initially as control. Two further groups (ALC and ALI) were offered ad libitum a complete ruminant diet. The ALI group was dosed daily for 14 weeks with 4000 infective larvae. Sheep in a further group (PF) were individually paired to members of the ALI group and offered the same amount of food as was consumed by their pair. Balances of N, Ca and P, and the digestibility of energy and N were determined for the ALI and PF groups during weeks 2–3, 7–8 and 12–13. After 14 weeks of dosing the sheep were killed and the bodies of these and the CI sheep analysed for water, fat, N, Ca and P contents.

Parasitism caused a 20% reduction of food intake by week 2 which was maintained throughout the experiment. Apparent digestibility of nitrogen was reduced from 60 to 44% at weeks 2—3 but subsequently showed a gradual recovery. Nitrogen balances of infected sheep were inferior to those of controls which, with the exception of the first trial during which urinary N excretion of infected sheep was increased, was entirely related to the reduced digestibility. Energy digestibility was reduced by 2 percentage units during all trials.

Weight gain of ALI sheep was only 80% of that of PF sheep. Nitrogen anabolism was reduced by parasitism, but pair-feeding showed that reduced food intake rather than a specific effect on protein metabolism was responsible. Fat deposition was markedly reduced. It was calculated that the gross efficiency of utilization of metabolizable energy for growth was reduced by 30% compared with either ALC or PF controls.

Mineral deposition (Ca or P) in the skeleton of the ALI sheep was reduced to about 35 and 50% of that in ALC and PF groups, respectively.

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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 88 , Issue 3 , June 1977 , pp. 671 - 677
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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