Alfalfa losses and quality changes begin as soon as the mower contacts the standing crop and these losses continue until the preserved feed is consumed. Harvest losses are caused by plant respiration, rain, and mechanical damage by equipment. Loss from plant respiration is relatively small when the crop is dried quickly under good drying conditions, but under slow drying conditions it can be up...

Oat (Avena sativa L.) traditionally has been a major crop for feed and forage in Turkey. Theobjective of this research was to study hay yield and quality of oat genotypes harvested at thelate milk stage. One hundred oat varieties of worldwide origin were compared in fieldexperiments in Samsun (northern Turkey) over two growing seasons (2007-2008 and 2008-2009).Significant differences between th...

introduction: nutrition and health during the first days of life has critical effect on broiler chickens performance. it is well known that diet formulation based on digestible nutrients is superior to formulation based on total nutrients. the suitable supply of essential amino acids in broilers’ diets requires proper knowledge on their metabolic effects in the body. the excessive or unbalanced...

The Maillard reaction can occur during the production of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) as a result of the addition of condensed solubles to the wet distillers cake during drying. The Maillard reaction can lead to the formation of unavailable or unreactive lysine as a result of binding of reducing sugars to the epsilon-NH(2) group of Lys. The Lys that remains unbound is called rea...

Grain fermentability largely determines the feed value of grains for ruminants. Our objective was to evaluate the variation in kinetics of gas production of cereal grains and the relationship among gas production, chemical composition and feed value. Eighteen barley, 99 corn, 23 sorghum, and 57 wheat samples were fermented in vitro for 48 h. Gas production was measured with a computerized syste...

The present study was carried out to evaluate the effect of supplementation exogenous fibrolytic enzymes (EFE) on voluntary feed intake, availability different nutrients and growth performance in weaned crossbred calves. Fifteen healthy female Jersey calves (weight 79.73±3.46 kg; age 234.5±11.33 days) were divided equally into three groups viz., Control (T0), Treatment-1 (T1) Treatment-2 (T2). ...

Intercropping systems could be a potential source of nutrient-rich forage production in cool climates on podzolic soils common boreal ecosystems. In this study, we evaluated the effects corn–soybean intercropping (IC) nutritional quality forage. Two silage corn varieties were cultivated as monocropping (MC) or intercropped with three soybean using randomized complete block design. IC significan...

The objective of this study was to evaluate productive, nutritional, and economic traits in lactating cows on pasture fed diets with different cation-anion balances (DCAB). Ten ¾ Holstein × ¼ Dairy Gyr the middle third lactation, at an average age 70 ± 4.6 months body weight 400 55.2 kg, were distributed into five treatments a 5 Latin square experimental design two simultaneous squares. Treatme...

In this study, common weed species (Anthemis sp., Anthemis tinctoria L., Pilosella hoppeana Schultes, Doranicum orientale Hoffm, Muscari neglectum Guss. ex Ten., Ornithogalum armeniacum Baker, narbonense wiedemannii Boiss., Anchusa azurea Miller, Echium plantagineum vulgare Ajuga orientalis Stachys germenica Juncus Anacamptis pyramidalis Ophrys apifera Huds., Carex panicea Ranunculus Hypericum ...

Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and carbon (DOC) often dominate the dissolved nitrogen and organic carbon fluxes from rivers, yet they are not considered to affect coastal water quality because of their assumed refractory nature. The objective of this study was to quantify DON and DOC bioavailability to bacteria in 9 rivers on the east coast of the United States during a 6 d dark bioassay expe...