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The Effects of Dietary Addition or Intraruminal Infusion of Amines or Juice Extracted from Grass Silage on the Voluntary Intake of Steers Offered Grass Silage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2017

L E R Dawson  and
C S Mayne
L E R Dawson
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough, Co Down, BT26 6DR
C S Mayne
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Hillsborough, Co Down, BT26 6DR
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The dry matter (DM) intake of ruminants offered grass silage is normally less than that of animals offered fresh grass or hay produced from the same sward. End products of fermentation including acids and nitrogenous constituents have been implicated in this depression (Gill, Rook and Thiago, 1988). The aims of the present study were to examine the possible role of amines and juice expressed from silage in silage intake control and to determine if their effect, if any, was due to either oropharyngeal factors or post ingestive mechanisms.

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Food Intake in Ruminants
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1994 , March 1994 , pp. 4
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1994

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