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Relationships between gas release in vitro and in vivo quality measures of tropical forages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

S. Fernández-Rivera
S. Fernández-Rivera*
Affiliation:
International Livestock Research Institute, BP 12404, Niamey, Niger
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Extract

Robust techniques that predict accurately and precisely the quality of forages are needed for developing improved feeding strategies and screening of large numbers of forage samples in breeding programmes. The release of gas in vitro (Menke et al., 1979) is attractive for this purpose because it does not require filtration and one single sample can be used to examine the kinetics of fermentation. The objective of this study was to determine the relationships between gas release in vitro and digestibility in vivo and intake of tropical forages.

Type
Overview of the in vitro technique
Information
BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 22: In vitro techniques for measuring nutrient supply to ruminants , 1998 , pp. 36 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1998

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