Eight rumen-fistulated steers were randomly assigned to mediumand high-concentrate diets supplemented with O, .75, 2.5 and 5% of either sodium bicarbonate or an artificial saliva salts mixture. Each animal was fed for 21 d at 75 g dry matter/kg body weight 'Ts. Rates of soybean meal (SBM) degradation were predicted by adjusting digestion rates in nylon bags with respective passage rates of chro...

Sleeve cages for enclosing or excluding arthropods are essential components of field studies evaluating trophic interactions. Microclimatic variation in sleeve cages was evaluated to characterize its potential effects on subsequent long-term experiments. Two sleeve cage materials, polyester and nylon, and two cage sizes, 400 and 6000 cm(2), were tested on eastern hemlock, Tsuga canadensis (L.) ...

The goal of this study was to ascertain the impact soybean meal's temperature and heating duration as undegraded protein (UDP) on Bali cattle's dry matter (DM) organic (OM) degradation kinetics. Soybean meal is a feed ingredient with high content, which about 48%, rapidly degraded in rumen. In investigation, factorial design employed first factor being (60, 80, 100, 120°C), second time (10, 20,...

In this study the values of true digestibility of DM, OM, CP, NDF and starch determined either by the nylon capsule method or conventional in vivo method were compared. Four intact crossbred dairy cows (mean milk yield 21.9 kg/d) were used in two experimental periods. TMR consisted of maize silage, lucerne hay and concentrate. Nylon capsules (external diameter 10 mm) were made of nylon cloth (p...