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Ruminal flow rate of soya-bean meal, rapeseed meal and cottonseed meal in cows fed at maintenance and at three times maintenance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

J. E. Lindberg
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Nutrition, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden

Extract

The introduction of new protein evaluation systems for ruminants presupposes means to measure the ruminal protein degradability of feeds (Burroughs, Nelson & Mertens, 1975; Roy et al. 1977; Vérité, Journet & Jarrige, 1979). One potentially useful method to get such estimates is the nylon bag technique (Mehrez & Ørskov, 1977). This method, however, does not take into account the flow of feed particles from the rumen. By adjusting rumen degradation results obtained in sacco with the outflow of the feed from the rumen more accurate estimates of the actual degradability is possible (0ørskov & McDonald, 1979).

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Short Note
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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