Evaluation of physical structure. 2. Maize silage
Material type: ArticleLanguage: En Publication details: 1993ISSN:- 0022-0302
- Animal feeding
- Artiodactyla
- Behaviour
- Bovidae
- Bovinae
- Cattle
- Cereals AGROVOC
- Developmental stages
- Digestion
- Dimensions
- Domestic animals
- Feed composition
- Feeding habits
- Feeds
- Fermented products
- Livestock AGROVOC
- Mammals
- Physiological functions
- Plant products
- Processed products
- Proximate composition
- Ruminants
- Useful animals
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Physical structure of 14 maize silages was investigated; chewing activity was measured with eight cows over 4 d. Silages were harvested from the milk dough dent to the hard dough dent stages of maturity and chopped at lengths of 4 to 16 mm. Silages were fed for ad libitum intake and were supplemented with 2 kg of soybean meal. Eating, ruminating, and total chewing indexes varied from 16.5 to 25.3, 34.3 to 50.2, and 50.8 to 75.5 min/kg of silage DMI, respectively. Ruminating and total chewing indexes decreased as maturity stage increased. Eating index was not significantly affected by chopping to 4 to 8 mm lengths but was higher for the
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