Intake, digestibility, milk production and kinetics of digestion and passage for diets based on maize or grass silage fed to late lactation dairy cows

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 113-124

  Mulligan, F J ^a   Quirke, J ^a   Rath, M ^a   Caffrey, P J ^a   O'Mara F P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle; Dry matter intake; Grass silage; Maize silage; Rumen fill; Rumen outflow rate

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036189635     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(01)00298-6     Document Type: Article

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