Track 1-11: Advances in Forage Conservation to Improve Quality
Publication Date
2013
Location
Sydney, Australia
Description
Many decision support tools have been developed to predict herbage intake with herbivore ruminants indoors (Faverdin 1992) or at grazing, both using short-term (Baumont et al. 2004) or daily scale input variables (Heard et al. 2004; Delagarde et al. 2011). However, the ingestive and digestive interactions when diets with more than one type of forage are used have not been sufficiently studied. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of maize silage supplementation to wethers receiving ryegrass haylage on OM intake, OM digestibility, microbial protein synthesis and N retention.
Citation
Almeida, João G. R.; Filho, Henrique M. N. Ribeiro; de Andrade, Ederson A.; Guzatti, Gabriela C.; Duchini, Paulo G.; Raupp, Gutierri T.; Ramos, Fabiana R.; and Delagarde, Rémy, "Forage Intake and Nitrogen Retention in Wethers Fed Ryegrass Haylage Supplemented with Maize Silage" (2013). IGC Proceedings (1985-2023). 25.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/22/1-11/25)
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Forage Intake and Nitrogen Retention in Wethers Fed Ryegrass Haylage Supplemented with Maize Silage
Sydney, Australia
Many decision support tools have been developed to predict herbage intake with herbivore ruminants indoors (Faverdin 1992) or at grazing, both using short-term (Baumont et al. 2004) or daily scale input variables (Heard et al. 2004; Delagarde et al. 2011). However, the ingestive and digestive interactions when diets with more than one type of forage are used have not been sufficiently studied. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of maize silage supplementation to wethers receiving ryegrass haylage on OM intake, OM digestibility, microbial protein synthesis and N retention.
