The crop yield and quality of seven annual forages (four grasses three legumes) in sole mixtures (ratio 50:50) for oat (Avena sativa L.), Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.), triticale (x Triticosecale Wittmack), barley (Hordeum vulgare pea (Pisum sativum berseem (Trifolium alexandrinum L.) common vetch (Vicia were evaluated a two-year field experiment adopting two harvesting times, gree...

Abstract The present experiment aimed to evaluate the partial replacement of corn with chocolate byproducts or protected fats in diet lactating cows on feed utilization, blood profile and lactation performance. Fifty multiparous Holstein (560±22 kg BW, 3±1 parity, 7±1 days milk, previous milk production 34±3 kg/d), were randomly assigned 5 treatments a completely randomized design for 90 days. ...

sixteen multiparous lactating buffaloes after 8 weeks of calving and weighing 500 to 600 kg were used in a complete switch-back design with four groups. buffaloes in the first group were fed the control ration (r1) consisted of dm basis of 60% concentrate feed mixture (cfm)+20% rice straw (rs)+20% berseem hay (bh), while in the other groups the rations consisted of dm basis of 40% cfm+20% rs+40...