Digestion during continuous culture fermentation when replacing perennial ryegrass with barley and steam-flaked corn

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 189-196

  Wales, W J ^a   Kolver, E S ^b   Egan, A R ^c,d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b DAIRYNZ   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concentrate supplementation; Continuous culture fermentation; Digestion; Highly digestible pasture

Indexed keywords

BOS; HORDEUM; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 58349097923     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2008-1223     Document Type: Article

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