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Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship between Ruminal Redox Potential and pH in Dairy Cattle: Influence of Dietary Characteristics
Physiologie et Systèmes d’ Elevage, UMR1388 Génétique, Université de Toulouse INPT ENSAT, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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Phileo Lesaffre Animal Care, Marcq-en-Baroeul, France
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Sherbrooke Research and Development Centre, Sherbrooke, Canada
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Phileo Lesaffre Animal Care, Marcq-en-Baroeul, France
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Phileo Lesaffre Animal Care, Marcq-en-Baroeul, France
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Physiologie et Systèmes d’ Elevage, UMR1388 Génétique, INRA, Castanet-Tolosan, France
1 Physiologie et Systèmes d’ Elevage, UMR1388 Génétique, Université de Toulouse INPT ENSAT, Castanet-Tolosan, France
2 Phileo Lesaffre Animal Care, Marcq-en-Baroeul, France
3 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Sherbrooke Research and Development Centre, Sherbrooke, Canada
4 Phileo Lesaffre Animal Care, Marcq-en-Baroeul, France
5 Phileo Lesaffre Animal Care, Marcq-en-Baroeul, France
6 Physiologie et Systèmes d’ Elevage, UMR1388 Génétique, INRA, Castanet-Tolosan, France
The ruminal redox potential ( E h ) can reflect the microbiological activity and dynamics of fermentation in the rumen. It might be an important indicator of rumen fermentation in combination with pH . However, the ruminal E h has been rarely studied in dairy cows due to the difficulty of its measurement, and the relationship between ruminal E h and pH is not clear. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between ruminal E h and pH of dairy cows by meta-analysis of systematic measurements from different experiments. A database was constructed from 22 experiments on cannulated dairy cattle including 57 dietary treatments. The ruminal pH and E h were measured without air contact between 0 and 8 h post-feeding. The results demonstrated a quadratic correlation between ruminal E h and pH with a reliable within-animal variation ( E h = -1697 + 540.7 pH -47.7 pH 2 , n observation = 70, n animal = 26, P < 0.001, RMSE = 56, AIC = 597). The dietary characteristics (NDF, NDFf, OM, starch, degradable starch, soluble sugars contents, and the dietary ionic balance) influencing the ruminal pH also affected the ruminal E h , but not always to the same extent. Some of them still influenced the relationship between ruminal E h and pH . While the mechanism of the interaction between ruminal E h and pH remains to be elucidated, it would be interesting to associate E h to microbial profile, ruminal VFA concentration and milk production performance in future studies.
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