Digestibility, ruminal fermentation, ingesta kinetics and nitrogen utilisation in dairy cows fed diets based on silage of a brown midrib or a standard maize hybrid

Archives of Animal Nutrition

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 143-158

  Gorniak, Tobias ^a,d   Hüther, Liane ^a   Meyer, Ulrich ^a   Lebzien, Peter ^a   Breves, Gerhard ^b   Südekum, Karl Heinz ^c   Dänicke, Sven ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

dairy cows; hybrid varieties; maize silage; microbial protein; nitrogen metabolism; rumen fermentation

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; VOLATILE FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; DIGESTION; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; RUMINANT STOMACH; SILAGE; STOMACH JUICE;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DIET; DIGESTION; FATTY ACIDS, VOLATILE; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; NITROGEN; RUMEN; SILAGE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84896458861     PISSN: 1745039X     EISSN: 14772817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1745039X.2014.897531     Document Type: Article

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