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Varel VH, Hashimoto AG. Effect of dietary monensin or chlortetracycline on methane production from cattle waste. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1981;41(1):29-34doi: 10.1128/aem.41.1.29-34.1981.
Varel, V. H., & Hashimoto, A. G. (1981). Effect of dietary monensin or chlortetracycline on methane production from cattle waste. Applied and environmental microbiology, 41(1), 29-34. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.41.1.29-34.1981
Varel, V H, and Hashimoto, A G. "Effect of dietary monensin or chlortetracycline on methane production from cattle waste." Applied and environmental microbiology vol. 41,1 (1981): 29-34. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.41.1.29-34.1981
Varel VH, Hashimoto AG. Effect of dietary monensin or chlortetracycline on methane production from cattle waste. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1981 Jan;41(1):29-34. doi: 10.1128/aem.41.1.29-34.1981. PMID: 16345696; PMCID: PMC243636.
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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1981 Jan;41(1):29-34. doi: 10.1128/aem.41.1.29-34.1981.

Effect of dietary monensin or chlortetracycline on methane production from cattle waste.

Applied and environmental microbiology

V H Varel, A G Hashimoto

Affiliations

  1. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Science and Education Administration, Agricultural Research, Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, Nebraska 68933.

PMID: 16345696 PMCID: PMC243636 DOI: 10.1128/aem.41.1.29-34.1981

Abstract

Wastes from feedlot cattle fed finishing diets containing either monensin, chlortetracycline, or no antibiotic were investigated as substrates for methane production. We used continuously mixed anaerobic fermentors with 3-liter working volumes at 35 and 55 degrees C; these fermentors were fed once per day. Within a few days after waste from animals fed monensin was added, the volume of methane produced began to decrease in the 55 degrees C fermentors. After 9 days of daily feeding, methane production was severely inhibited, the pH dropped from 7.6 to 5.9, and the concentration of volatile acids increased from 543 to 6,300 mg/liter (as acetate). Although additions of waste from cattle fed monensin were discontinued after 9 days, the fermentors did not resume gas production within 8 weeks. The addition of waste from cattle which had been fed chlortetracycline reduced the methane production rate approximately 20%; however, pH and volatile acid values were comparable to control fermentor values after 40 days. Similar effects were observed with the 35 degrees C fermentors. In a batch fermentation experiment in which 50-g portions of volatile solids from waste of animals fed monensin, chlortetracycline, or no antibiotics were added to fermentors, monensin delayed the onset of methane production for about 40 days, but then these fermentors began to produce methane at a rate comparable to the control rate. The ultimate methane yields from the three types of waste after 180 days were not significantly different. These studies indicate that monensin has a detrimental effect on the conversion of feedlot wastes to methane, unless microorganisms can be adapted to the levels that are present in these wastes.

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