Comparison of two forage sorghum varieties with corn and the effect of feeding their silages on eating behavior and lactation performance of dairy cows

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 139, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 23-39

  Miron, Joshua ^a   Zuckerman, Ephraim ^b   Adin, Gabriel ^b   Solomon, Ran ^b   Shoshani, Ezra ^b   Nikbachat, Moshe ^a   Yosef, Edith ^a   Zenou, Abraham ^a   Weinberg, Zwi Gershon ^a   Chen, Yahira ^a   Halachmi, Ilan ^a   Ben Ghedalia, Daniel ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Corn Oropesa silage; Dairy cows; Eating behavior; FS 5 and BMR 101 sorghum silage; Milk performance

Indexed keywords

BOS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 36049038949     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2007.01.011     Document Type: Article

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