Digestion Studies with Oat Silages Using a New Fecal Collection Technique
- 1 May 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Animal Science
- Vol. 18 (2) , 671-674
- https://doi.org/10.2527/jas1959.182671x
Abstract
Nine 8-month-old Holstein bulls were used to determine the apparent digestibility of oat silage made of oat forage harvested in the boot, earlymilk and soft-dough stages. Total fecal collections were made in 6-mil polyethylene bags described herein. The TDN content of the silages for boot, early-milk and soft-dough stages was 67.0, 60.9 and 54.1%, respectively. During the 14-day interval between the boot and soft-dough stages, TDN decreased 1.4% daily. Copyright © . .This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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