Supplemental Cracked Corn or Wheat Bran for Steers Grazing Endophyte-Free Fescue Pasture: Effects on Live Weight Gain, Nutrient Quality, Forage Intake, Particulate and Fluid Kinetics, Ruminal Fermentation, and Digestion

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1116-1125

  Hess, B W ^a,b   Krysl, L J ^a   Judkins, M B ^a   Holcombe, D W ^a   Hess, J D ^a   Hanks, D R ^a,c   Huber, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle; Digestion; Feed intake; Wheat bran

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIGESTION; EATING; FERMENTATION; MAIZE; MALE; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; RUMINANT STOMACH; STANDARD; WEIGHT GAIN; WHEAT;

AMMONIA; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DIGESTION; EATING; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FERMENTATION; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; NITROGEN; RUMEN; TRITICUM; WEIGHT GAIN; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030141383     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/1996.7451116x     Document Type: Article

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