Twenty ®ve growing crossbred bulls (Bos indicus Bos taurus) were used in a randomised block design experiment for 196 days to determine the effect of grainless concentrate containing different supplemental nitrogen sources along with wheat straw based diet on feed intake, nutrient digestibility, plane of nutrition and daily live weight gain. The animals in control group received barley 30% in t...

The optimal roughage concentration required in feedlot diets changes continuously for many reasons such as source, availability, price, and interaction with other ingredients in the diet. Wet distillers grains and solubles (WDGS) are common in finishing diets and they contain relatively high amounts of fiber compared with other grains they replace. Therefore, concentration of roughage could be ...

Forty two Malpura lambs (21 d old) were divided into three groups of 14 each consisting of 8 females and 6 males. Lambs were allowed to suckle their respective dams twice daily up to weaning (13 wks) and offered free choice concentrate and roughage in a cafeteria system. The lambs in control group were fed conventional concentrate mixture, in RBO group concentrate mixture fortified with 4% indu...

An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary supplementation with citrus pulp, fish by-product, and Bacillus subtilis fermentation biomass on the growth performance, apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of nutrients, and fecal microflora of weanling pigs. A total of 180 weaned piglets (Landrace × Yorkshire × Duroc) were randomly allotted to three treatments on the basi...

the objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of sources of four starch on milk production and composition, nutrients digestibility and blood metabolites of lactating holstein cows. eight multiparous holstein cows (683±31 kg of body weight; 83±9 dim) were used in a replicated 4×4 latin square design with 21-d periods. the exprimental diets contained wheat, barley, corn, or potato as t...

Methane production in Muzaffarnagari sheep was studied using open circuit respiration calorimetry technique. Twelve rams were divided in three treatment groups of four each and were fed at about maintenance with diets having three roughage (oat hay) to concentrate ratio (R : C), i.e. 92 : 8 (group I), 50 : 50 (group II), 30 : 70 (group III). Concentrate mixture was formulated to contain 93% cru...

Purified diets were offered to sheep ad libitum in two experiments. Urea was the main source of nitrogen, while energy was supplied as cellulose (20 to 72% ), starch (0 to 32% ) , or sucrose (0 to 35%) . The data indicated that (a) cellulose could serve as a suitable sole source of energy for rumen microbial synthesis, and (b) diets composed largely of cellulose, urea, and minerals could mainta...

Wisconsin dairy farmers produce more corn (Zea mays L.) silage than any other state in the U.S. A University of Wisconsin corn silage research consortium evaluated corn hybrids and found that the range for NDF and digestibility among commercial hybrids is narrow, but more importantly, yield and quality differences among corn hybrids were repeatable (Coors, 1996). In 1995, an extension program w...