Increasing amounts of crushed wheat fed with Persian clover herbage reduced ruminal pH and dietary fibre digestibility in lactating dairy cows

Animal Production Science

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 837-846

  Leddin, C M ^a,b   Stockdale, C R ^a   Hill, J ^b   Heard, J W ^a   Doyle, P T ^a,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Department of Primary Industries ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

associative effects; ruminal fermentation; ruminal fluid pH.

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CATTLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DAIRY FARMING; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIETARY SHIFT; DIGESTIBILITY; DOMINANCE; FERMENTATION; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LACTATION; NITROGEN COMPOUND; ORGANIC MATTER; PASTURE; PH; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WHEAT;

BOS; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM RESUPINATUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77957563024     PISSN: 18360939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AN09157     Document Type: Article

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