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J. Anim Sci. 1964. 23:208-213.
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In Vitro and In Vivo Comparisons on the Utilization of Urea, Biuret and Diammonium Phosphate by Sheep1,2,

R. R. Johnson and K. E. McClure3,4,

Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster

Abstract

In digestion trials with sheep fed rations consisting of 50:50 ratios of roughage to concentrates (primarily corn cobs, soybran flakes, starch and shelled corn), biuret and diammonium phosphate did not appear to be utilized as efficiently as urea in changeover type trials but the differences were not significant. Blood urea-N was higher when the animals were fed urea than when fed biuret. In an "adaptation" trial, sheep were fed similar rations supplemented with two levels each of urea and biuret for 94 days. There appeared to be an adaptation to biuret when apparent digestibilities were considered but not when nitrogen retention or biological values were considered. No similar phenomenon with urea was observed. Biuret feeding had no appreciable effect on rumen ammonia or blood urea, whereas urea raised both considerably. Biuret was utilized very poorly by starch digesting rumen bacteria taken from sheep "adapted" to biuret. Furthermore, microorganisms taken from urea or biuret "adapted" animals failed to release ammonia from biuret when incubated in vitro.

Footnotes

1 Approved for publication as Journal Article No. 80 63 by the Associate Director of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster.

2 Supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid of Research from the Nitrogen Division, Allied Chemical Corporation, New York, N. Y.

3 The authors wish to acknowledge the technical assistance of R. E. Maxwell in the blood analyses.

4 Department of Animal Science.






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