Ruminant Nutrition: Small Ruminants.

This article presents abstracts of various papers related to ruminant nutrition, that were presented during the symposium held on July 26, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio, which was organized by the American Dairy Science Association, the American Society of Animal Science and the Canadian Society of Animal Science. One of the papers presented is "Effect of Dietary Copper Supplementation on Fatty Acid Profile of Muscle, Mesenteric, and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue in Goat Kids," by E. Ellis, W. Bergen, S. Solaiman and K. Cummins. A feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of dietary copper supplementation at 0, 100 and 200 mg/d above basal intake on relative amounts of fatty acids in various tissue depots of goats. The effect varied with tissue and affected different fatty acids in different tissues. Another paper presented is "Vitamin E Improves the Number of Transferable Embryos and Born Lambs in Super-Ovulated Ewes," by H. Luo, S. Zhu and Z. Jia. The effect of Vitamin E on the multiple ovulation embryos transfer was studied in two experiments. Fourteen ewes were divided into two groups in Exp 1, and Vitamin E was added 400mg/day to the diet and 16 times higher than the NRC standard in the treatment group.