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Intake and digestio...
Intake and digestion of whole-crop barley and wheat silages by dairy heifers
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- Rustas, Bengt-Ove (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för husdjurens miljö och hälsa (HMH),Department of Animal Environment and Health
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- Bertilsson, Jan (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för husdjurens utfodring och vård (HUV),Department of Animal Nutrition and Management
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- Martinsson, Kjell (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för norrländsk jordbruksvetenskap,Department of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden
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- Nadeau, Elisabet (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för husdjurens miljö och hälsa (HMH),Department of Animal Environment and Health
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- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011
- 2011
- English.
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In: Journal of Animal Science. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0021-8812 .- 1525-3163. ; 89, s. 4134-4141
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- The effect of maturity at harvest on the digestibility and intake of large bale silage made from whole-crop barley and wheat when fed to growing heifers was evaluated. Two crops of spring barley (Hordeum distichum cv. Filippa and Kinnan) and 1 of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. Olevin) were harvested at the heading, milk, and dough stages of maturity. The silage was fed to 36 dairy heifers in a balanced crossover experiment with 3 periods and 9 treatments (diets based on 3 crops and 3 stages of maturity), organized into 6 pairs of 3 x 3 Latin squares. No clear relationship was observed between intake and stage of maturity of whole-crop cereal silage, but intake was positively correlated to silage DM content (P < 0.001, r = 0.46) and negatively correlated to NDF content (P < 0.001, r = -0.42). Organic matter digestibility decreased between the heading and milk stages of maturity in all crops (P < 0.001), did not differ between the milk and the dough stages in the 2 barley crops, but increased in the wheat silage (P = 0.034). The NDF digestibility decreased between the heading and milk stages in all crops (P < 0.001), whereas it decreased in 1 barley crop (P < 0.001), increased in the other barley (P = 0.025), and was unchanged in the wheat between the milk and dough stages of maturity. Starch digestibility was less in the 2 barley crops compared with the wheat at the dough stage of maturity (P < 0.001). The feeding value of the whole-crop barley and wheat declined between the heading and milk stages of maturity, but thereafter the effect of maturity on the feeding value was minor.
Subject headings
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Lantbruksvetenskap, skogsbruk och fiske -- Jordbruksvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries -- Agricultural Science (hsv//eng)
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Husdjursvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Animal and Dairy Sience (hsv//eng)
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Veterinärmedicin (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Veterinary Science (hsv//eng)
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