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An evaluation through finishing heifers of a baterial inoculant as a silage additive using difficult-to-ensile herbage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

T W J Keady  and
R W J Steen
T W J Keady
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough, Co Down, Northern IrelandBT26 6DR
R W J Steen
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough, Co Down, Northern IrelandBT26 6DR
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Traditionally silage additives have increased silage intake and the performance of beef and dairy cattle through improvements in silage fermentation. In a series of studies undertaken at this Institute with feaef and dairy cattle an inoculant based on a single strain of lactobacillus planterum (Ecosyl) produced leBirable benefits in terms of silage intake and animal performance without any improvement in silage fermentation. Most of these benefits occurred in studies where the untreated silage was well preserved. Uherefore the present studies were designed to evaluate the same inoculant under difficult-to-ensile conditions.

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Grazing and conservation for dairy cattle
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1991 , March 1991 , pp. 50
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1991

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