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Rumen: Determining Corn Silage Digestibility

Published: March 2, 2009
Summary
Accurately predicting the digestible energy of corn silage for ration formulation and animal performance is important. This is particularly true during dry years or low CHU years when there can be tremendous variations in the proportions of grain and stover. Corn silage is often making up a higher portion of rations, particularly during years when forage inventories are lower than required. Fortu...
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Hassan Subhani
Sweetwater International, Inc.
8 de diciembre de 2009
Very Nice and informatic
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Duygu Ekin
19 de julio de 2011
Firstly I have to thank for usefull and nice article. I want to ask a question. We can measure dry matter, crude protein, ash, crude fiber, fat in our laboratory. I want to calculate net energy lactation values of feed stufs we use. But I could not reach the right formulas. In last article I read from the internet I should know DE for calculatin Nel. Do you have DE formulas for different kind of feed stuffs (alfa lafa, wheat bran...etc). Thnak you very much Duygu EKIN
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