Publication Date
1989
Description
Ingestibility is the quantity of a forage that can be eaten by a standard animal when it is fed ad libitum as the sole feed (INRA, 1978). The eating pattern of ruminants reflects the way in which intake is controlled. The animal eats a large meal when a new batch of forage is distributed ; meals thereafter are small until the next distribution (Dulphy & Faverdin, 1987). To make a closer study of forage ingestibility, it seemed interesting to record the daily pattern of intake and to analyse in detail the large meals, which are 60 to 90 % of the daily intake. The intake kinetics during main meals can be adjusted with a good accuracy to a monoexponential model (Faverdin, 1985; Baumont, 1988), which makes it possible to follow the rate of intake during the meal. We compared intake kinetics and eating patterns in sheep and cows fed three types of hays.
Citation
Baumont, R; Brun, J P.; and Dulphy, J P., "Influence of the Nature of Hay on its Ingestibility and the Kinetics of Intake During Large Meals in Sheep and Cows" (2025). IGC Proceedings (1989-2023). 16.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/1989/session7/16
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Influence of the Nature of Hay on its Ingestibility and the Kinetics of Intake During Large Meals in Sheep and Cows
Ingestibility is the quantity of a forage that can be eaten by a standard animal when it is fed ad libitum as the sole feed (INRA, 1978). The eating pattern of ruminants reflects the way in which intake is controlled. The animal eats a large meal when a new batch of forage is distributed ; meals thereafter are small until the next distribution (Dulphy & Faverdin, 1987). To make a closer study of forage ingestibility, it seemed interesting to record the daily pattern of intake and to analyse in detail the large meals, which are 60 to 90 % of the daily intake. The intake kinetics during main meals can be adjusted with a good accuracy to a monoexponential model (Faverdin, 1985; Baumont, 1988), which makes it possible to follow the rate of intake during the meal. We compared intake kinetics and eating patterns in sheep and cows fed three types of hays.
