Grass maturity effects on cattle fed silage-based diets. 2. Cell wall digestibility, digestion and passage kinetics

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-35

  Rinne, M ^a,b   Huhtanen, P ^a,b   Jaakkola, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Digestion; Grass maturity; Kinetics; Passage; Ruminant

Indexed keywords

BOS TAURUS; BOVIDAE; PHLEUM PRATENSE; SCHEDONORUS PRATENSIS;

EID: 0042637935     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8401(96)01142-X     Document Type: Article

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