Ingredient
Level (%)
Corn
4.95
Soybean hull
2.78
Soybean meal
7.61
Molasses beet
2.23
Whole cottonseed
2.88
NaHCO
3
0.28
Yeast powder
0.06
Steam flaked corn
9.74
Alfalfa hay
7.93
Whole corn silage
50.07
Rumen-pass fatty acid
0.42
Corn bran
2.70
Distillers dried grains and soluble
4.17
Oat hay
2.31
Mycotoxin remover agent
0.06
Premix
1
1.81
1
One kg premix contained the following: VA, 130,000 IU; VE, 465 IU; Cu, 2600 mg; Mn, 6000 mg; Zn, 2600 mg; Se,
70 mg; I, 120 mg; Co, 70 mg.
2.2. Experiment Design and In Vitro Batch Culture
The in vitro experiments in anaerobic glass bottles (volume capacity of 120 mL) com-
bined with the Automated Trace Gas Recording System for Microbial Fermentation (AGRS
III, Beijing, China), incubated with a substrate, buffer solution, and rumen fluid were per-
formed according to the description of Zhang and Yang [
24
]. The fermentation system in
each bottle included 500 mg substrate, 50 mL rumen fluid, and 25 mL buffer solution. The
rumen fluid from each cow was collected 2 h after morning feeding, filtered through four
layers of cheesecloth, transported in a pre-warmed thermos bottle at 39
◦
C, and then mixed
in the laboratory with CO
2
at 39
◦
C. The rumen fluid sampling process was conducted
according to Yáñez-Ruiz et al. [
25
]. The buffer solution was prepared following the method
of Menke [
26
]. After mixing, the buffer solution was bubbled with CO
2
until the pH value
was 6.8.
The substrates consisted of a TMR, corn silage, oat hay, and alfalfa hay obtained from
the same commercial farm where the rumen-cannulated dairy cows resided. The fresh
TMR sample was collected after mixing (MVS-16-H self-propelled vertical double auger,
TATOMA, Monzón, Spain). The ingredients of TMR are shown in Table
1
. The corn silage,
oat hay, and alfalfa hay samples were taken from the silage pit or feed warehouse. All the
samples were taken from five points and mixed. After 2 h transportation from the farm
to the laboratory, TMR and corn silage were dried at 60
◦
C for 48 h, and then all feeds
were ground to pass through a 2 mm screen (FNF-400, Qingdao Jimo, and Pulverizer Plant,
Shandong, China). The chemical compositions are shown in Table
2
.
The treatments included control (no AOAN treatment) and 60 mg/g AOAN. The
fermentation substrates were TMR, corn silage, oat hay, and alfalfa hay, respectively. Finally,
according to the substrate amount (500 mg each bottle), 30 mg AOAN was weighted into
each bottle. The AOAN product was supplied by Bioscreen Technologies SRL (Bologna,
Italy). The additive amount of AOAN was referred to Sun et al. [
13
]. The main ingredient
of the commercial product was corncob power with A. oryzae and A. niger fermentation
(94.5% dry matter, 26% crude protein, 4.2% crude fiber, 3.8% crude fat). The TMR and
corn silage fermentation included four-time points (7 h, 24 h, 30 h, 48 h), and hay or alfalfa
hay fermentation included three-time points (24 h, 30 h, 48 h). Each time point included
six replicates. These bottles were immediately connected to the Automated Trace Gas
Recording System. Three bottles without substrate were used as the blank.
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