Profiling of rumen fermentation, microbial population and digestibility in goats fed with dietary oils containing different fatty acids

Table 2 Effects of supplementation with different types of oils on microbial population (mean ± SE) in the rumen of goats

Parameter	Treatment				P-value
Parameter	CNT	OL	PO	SF	Treatment	Day	Treatment×Day
Total Microbes (Log10 copy No/g)	9.56 ± 0.21	10.20 ± 0.15	10.01 ± 0.13	9.83 ± 0.16	NS	NS	NS
Fibrobacter succinogenes (Log10 copy No/g)	4.20 ± 0.18	3.67 ± 0.18	4.20 ± 0.14	4.21 ± 0.14	NS	*	*
Rumonococcus albus (Log10 copy No/g)	7.81 ± 0.21	7.65 ± 0.18	7.95 ± 0.22	8.07 ± 0.19	NS	*	*
Ruminococcus flavefaciens (Log10 copy No/g)	5.02 ± 0.19	5.06 ± 0.26	5.32 ± 0.20	5.36 ± 0.10	NS	*	*
Methanogenic archea (Log10 copy No/g)	3.60 ± 0.12^b	4.23 ± 0.22^a	3.91 ± 0.14^ab	4.39 ± 0.21^a	*	*	*
Protozoa (Log10 copy No/g)	3.30 ± 0.22	2.63 ± 0.22	3.30 ± 0.13	3.22 ± 0.15	NS	*	NS

CNT Control diet, OL Olive oil diet, PO Palm olein diet, SF Sunflower oil diet, Tr Treatment
^*Significant level at P < 0.05
^{a, b}Means ± std. error in the same row with different superscripts are statistically different (P < 0.05)

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