The ruminant animal, by virtue of the population of active microorganisms which is supported in the rumen, can utilize a much wider range of nitrogen containing substances for body maintenance and production than can the monogastric animal. The rumen microorganisms, chiefly the bacteria, synthesize microbial protein of high biological value from non-protein nitrogen sources in the rumen, and this becomes available to the host animal by normal processes of protein digestion in the abomasum. The animal is therefore not entirely dependent upon dietary protein to satisfy its nitrogen requirements; indeed expansive dietary protein may be conserved by feeding cheaper non-protein supplements to ruminants.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115130 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Jones, Graham. A. |
| Contributors | Blackwood, A. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Agriculture.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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