An experiment using a 4 X 4 Latin square design was to determine effects of treating wheat straw with pH-regulated (pH = 11.5) solutions of hydrogen peroxide on site and extent of nutrient digestion in multiple-fistulated sheep. Regulating reaction pH at 11.5 prevented solubilization of some cell wall hemicelluloses, resulting in improved retention of DM. Diets fed to sheep contained 33 or 70% ...

Maize is the most important crop in Mexico, being central to diets of consumers, particularly smallholders, and an undetermined amount allocated as straw, green fodder, and, a lesser extent, silage for animal feed. Nitrogen fertilizer considered one factors affecting growth, grain yield, maize biomass production. In this context, main objective study was evaluate effects different levels nitrog...

The high energy consumption and low crushing length qualification rate of traditional straw returning machines in the main maize-growing regions northeast China make it difficult to promote operations region. primnoa locust mouthpart is extremely efficient cutting maize rootstocks. In this paper, was found that there are significant differences between conventional machine, these exist mainly e...

The experiment was conducted for a period of 75 days to study the effect of treatment of straw with urea or with urea and a urease containing chick pea seed meal and midden soil on chemical composition of treated rice straw, feed intake of the animals, nutrients digestibility, body weight gain, and feed conversion efficiency. For the study twelve indigenous growing bulls aged approximately 20 m...

The present study was conducted to 1) identify the natural source of feed contamination by zearalenone (ZEN), which was suspected to have caused persistently increased urinary ZEN concentrations in one of our experimental cattle herds, and 2) evaluate the effects of intervention against this source of contamination. As an experimental model, a fattening Japanese Black cattle herd showing persis...

The objective of this study was to evaluate properties of experimental particleboard panels manufactured from wheat straw that had been pretreated with acetic anhydride, soapy solution, hot water, or steam. Wheat straw particles were mixed with commercially manufactured wood particles at a ratio of 60%. Control straw particleboards with non-treated straw and wood particles were also produced. T...