The effects of cereal supplementation of grass and maize silages |
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| Authors: | J VADIVELOO W HOLMES |
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| Institution: | Wye College, University of London, UK. |
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| Abstract: | Grass and maize silages were fed alone and with two levels of a barley supplement to Friesian steers of about 300 kg liveweight. The organic matter (OM) intakes of grass and maize silage were similar although the OM digestibilities of the silages were 0·722 and 0·649 respectively. For both silages, barley supplementation increased total OM intake and total digestible OM intake by 0·46·0·08 and 0·37·0·06 g per g OM of supplement respectively. Liveweight gains on grass and maize silage diets were 1·38 and 1·20 kg d-1 respectively, but the differences were not significant (P> 0·05). |
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