Replacement of tifton hay with alfalfa hay in diets containing spineless cactus (Nopalea cochenillifera Salm-Dyck) for dairy goats

Effect of replacement of alfalfa hay with straw in iso-fibrous diets with different levels of cation-anion balance on dairy cows performance

effect of replacing alfalfa hay with alfalfa silage in high performance dairy cattle diets

four-handed fifty lactating holstein cows with mean body weight of, 597± 40 and 50±20 and days in milk body condi from sure of 3.1±0.4 were blocked by parity and randomly assigned to 3 treatments. each treatment had 3 pens and each pen had 50 cows. the experiment lasted for 60 days (10 days adaptation and 50 days collection period). concentrate to forage ratio was 60 to 40 and alfalfa hay repla...

Effect of concentrate-dehydrated alfalfa ratio on milk yield and composition in Alpine dairy goats fed hay based diets

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What Are Dairy Nutritionists Looking for in Alfalfa Hay

Dairy cattle nutritionists value alfalfa hay for its high energy value which supports milk production, its rapidly rumen digested structural fiber which stimulates feed intake, its coarse structural fiber that stimulates ruminative chewing and salivation which results in rumen buffering, its structural fiber which has a high buffering capacity , its high protein level which supports animal prot...

Acid Preservation of Alfalfa Hay for Dairy Cows

Since high quality forage is essential in a dairy ration, it is improtant to study new methods of preserving hay. In this trial, the effect of a commercial organic acid preservative on nutirent content and feeding value of alfalfa hay was evaluated. Alfalfa hay from a common field was baled at about 20 percent moisture for a control, and at about 28 percent moisture with addition of 0.1 percent...