OBJECTIVE To analyze the sulfur content of water and forage samples from a geographically diverse sample of beef cow-calf operations in the United States and to estimate frequency and distribution of premises where forage and water resources could result in consumption of hazardous amounts of sulfur by cattle. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SAMPLE POPULATION 709 forage samples from 678 beef ...

Inter-sexual segregation between habitats or between sites within a habitat is very widespread in sexually dimorphic ungulates. As an explanation, it has been suggested that males, because of their larger forage requirements, are driven from preferred, high quality forage habitats into marginal habitats of lower forage quality but higher forage biomass by female competition (`indirect competiti...

The aim of this thesis was to increase our understanding about chicory (forage and root) as fibre source for pigs, by studying the effects of diets with inclusion of chicory on digestibility, digestion site, performance, gut microbiota and environment. In total 62 pigs were used, including newly weaned and growing intact pigs and growing post valve t-caecum (PVTC)-cannulated pigs. The weaned pi...

The objective of the current study was to examine whether step-down (STP) milk feeding method together with forage provision would improve performance, rumen fermentation, nutrient digestibility, blood metabolites, and structural growth of calves. Holstein bull calves ( = 40) were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 treatments in a completely randomized design with a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement. Treatm...

The objectives of this study were to examine long-term effects of feeding forage rape (Brassica napus L.) on methane yields (g methane per kg of feed dry matter intake), and to propose mechanisms that may be responsible for lower emissions from lambs fed forage rape compared to perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). The lambs were fed fresh winter forage rape or ryegrass as their sole diet for...

The European Green Deal is the EU’s latest growth strategy and action plan, which will meet challenges concerning climate change environmental degradation. components of are intended to prevent biodiversity loss, reduce pollution level, improve food quality are: Farm Fork Strategy Biodiversity Strategy. Their main aims include: Reducing application pesticides by 50% 2030, reducing nutrients los...

A field experiment was conducted at Forage research under All India Coordinated Research Project on (Forage Crops & Utilization) situated College of veterinary science and Animal Husbandry, Kanke Ranchi (Jharkhand) to evaluate the effect cutting splitting nitrogen levels oat. Pooled three years data showed that, oat variety RO-19 recorded more plant height (104.58 cm), GFY (461.12 q ha-1), DFY ...