Grain processing, forage-to-concentrate ratio, and forage length effects on ruminal nitrogen degradation and flows of amino acids to the duodenum

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2578-2590

  Yang, W Z ^a   Beauchemin, K A ^a  

^a LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amino acid flow; Dairy cow; Forage particle length; Grain processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 4243121800     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(04)73383-4     Document Type: Article

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