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The feeding of treated straw and grass silage in combination to growing beef cattle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

P. Rowlinson  and
S. H. Raza
P. Rowlinson
Affiliation:
Dept. of Agriculture, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
S. H. Raza
Affiliation:
Dept. of Agriculture, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
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Straw (barley or wheat) is an important component of the diet of ruminants in developing countries but straw has a poor nutritive value due to the extensive lignification. The nutritive value of straw can be improved by several types of treatment (chemical, physical etc.). A number of workers have investigated different techniques of chemical treatment to improve the nutritional value and dry matter intake of straw (e.g. Homb, 1984, Rexan and Knudsen, 1984). Most of the workers have studied the nutritional improvement of treated straw in vitro but relatively few have investigated the potential of this feed, of improved nutritional value and high pH as a complement and buffer to acidic grass silage.This study was planned to investigate the optimum dietary inclusion level of alkali (NaOH) treated straw without affecting adversely animal performance and the economics of feeding.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1992 , March 1992 , pp. 191
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1992

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