Ruminant diets include cereals, protein feeds, their by-products as well as hay and grass,
grass/legume, whole-crop maize, small grain or sorghum silages. Furthermore, ruminants …

Dietary starch from feed grains represent the major energy‐yielding sources in diets for
large animals and starch effective digestion has a great impact on animal energy intake for …

A wealth of data and information on the cultivation of perennial biomass crops has been
collected, but direct comparisons between herbaceous and woody crops are rare. The main …

Sixty-four corn silages were characterized for chemicals, bacterial community, and
concentrations of several fungal metabolites. Silages were grouped in five clusters, based …

Hay is one of the primary constituents of ruminant feed, and rapid classification systems of
nutritional value are essential. A reliable approach to evaluating hay quality is a combination …

The role of indigestible NDF is essential in relation to OM digestibility prediction, total tract
digestibility, rumen fill, passage rate, and digestion kinetics. Moreover, the truly indigestible …

Abstract Development of indexes based on milk yield of lactating dairy cows fed corn silage-
based diets combined with silage quality parameters can provide clear guidance to assess …

BACKGROUND A survey on 68 dairy farms was carried out to evaluate the ensiling
procedures adopted to store corn silage. Samples from core, lateral and apical zones of the …

The objective of the study was to determine the physical-chemical composition of protein
hydrolysates from meat by-products from poultry and swine processing, as well as to …

This study presents the results of long-term semi-continuous experiments on anaerobic
digestion at an HRT of 45 d with ten silages: 2 annual and 4 perennial crops, and 4 mixtures …