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- Title
Effects of feeding salt-tolerant forage cultivated in saline-alkaline land on rumen fermentation, feed digestibility and nitrogen balance in lamb.
- Authors
Cong Wang; Kuan Hu Dong; Qiang Liu; Wen Zhu Yang; Xiang Zhao; Sheng Qiang Liu; Ting Ting He; Zhuang Yu Liu
- Abstract
The article discusses a study which investigated the effect of feeding salt-tolerant forage on the ruminal fermentation, feed digestibility, and nitrogen balance in lambs. Corn stover was replaced with a mixture of Dahurian wildrye grass, weeping alkaligrass and erect milkvetch. The researchers observed improved rumen fermentation with increased total volatile fatty acid (VFA) production. It concludes that salt-tolerant forage decreased digestibilities but not feed intake.
- Subjects
FORAGE; ANIMAL feeds; RUMEN fermentation; FATTY acids; SHEEP feeding; LAMBS
- Publication
Journal of the Science of Food & Agriculture, 2011, Vol 91, Issue 7, p1259
- ISSN
0022-5142
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jsfa.4308