Feed intake and digestibility of whole-crop cereal silages fed to dairy heifers

Sammanfattning

Whole-crop silages of oats, six-rowed barley and two-rowed barley, harvested at heading (H), early milk (EM) and early dough (ED) stages of maturity, were fed to thirty-two heifers of the Swedish Red breed in a change-over experiment. The animals were fed the silages ad libitum for seventeen days, of which intake was determined during the last ten days, and then 0.95 of ad libitum for eleven days of which in vivo digestibility was determined during the last five days. Differences were considered significant if PTukey's

Nyckelord

hordeum vulgare; avena sativa; silage intake; NDF; starch; forage

Publicerad i

Grassland Science in Europe
2008, volym: 13, sidor: 867-869
Titel: Biodiversity and animal feed - Future challanges for grassland production
Utgivare: Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

Konferens

22nd General Meeting of the European Grassland Federation

SLU författare

• Wallsten, Johanna

  • Institutionen för norrländsk jordbruksvetenskap, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Nadeau, Elisabet

  • Institutionen för tillämpad husdjursvetenskap och välfärd, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Bertilsson, Jan

  • Institutionen för tillämpad husdjursvetenskap och välfärd, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Martinsson, Kjell

  • Institutionen för norrländsk jordbruksvetenskap, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Husdjursvetenskap
Jordbruksvetenskap
Veterinärmedicin

Publikationens identifierare

• ISBN: 978-91-85911-47-9

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/19173