The effect of partial replacement of grass silage with fresh grass on rumen fermentation characteristics and rumen outflow rates in cattle
作者:
C. A. MCKEE,
A. CUSHNAHAN,
C. S. MAYNE,
E. F. UNSWORTH,
期刊:
Grass and Forage Science
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 51,
issue 1
页码: 32-41
ISSN:0142-5242
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2494.1996.tb02035.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractAn experiment was designed to examine the effects of partially replacing extensively fermented grass silage with varying proportions of fresh grass (0, 0–33, 0–67 and 100) on rumen fermentation, degradation of dry matter (DM) and rate of outflow of liquid and particulate phases from the rumen with four mature Limousin steers. The fresh grass had a higher pH and water‐soluble carbohydrate and lower ammonia‐N and lactic acid concentrations than the silage. Partial replacement of silage with fresh grass resulted in a reduction in rumen ammonia concentration, and in the proportion of rumen propionate, i‐butyrate andn‐valerate and an increase in the proportion of rumen acetate and in both die particulate and liquid outflow rates from the rumen. These changes in rumen fermentation parameters could account for increases in animal performance in situations in which grass silage is partially replaced with
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