Dry Matter Intake and In Vivo Digestibility of Grass-Only and Grass-White Clover in Individually Housed Sheep in Spring, Summer and Autumn.

Lolium perenne Trifolium repens digestibility season sheep

Journal

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
ISSN: 2076-2615
Titre abrégé: Animals (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101635614

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
26 Jan 2021
Historique:
received: 24 11 2020
revised: 10 01 2021
accepted: 12 01 2021
entrez: 3 2 2021
pubmed: 4 2 2021
medline: 4 2 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Intake and digestibility are key drivers of animal production from grazed forage. The objective of this study was to compare the in vivo digestibility and voluntary dry matter (DM) intake of grass-only and grass-white clover (grass-clover) forage in individually housed sheep. This study was a Latin square design, repeated on three occasions in 2017: Spring (27 March-29 April), summer (19 June-22 July) and autumn (4 September-29 September). Grass-clover and grass-only swards were harvested daily and offered

Identifiants

pubmed: 33530430
pii: ani11020306
doi: 10.3390/ani11020306
pmc: PMC7911710
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Subventions

Organisme : Irish Dairy Levy administered by Dairy Research Ireland
ID : 00
Organisme : Teagasc Walsh Scholarship Programme
ID : 00

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Auteurs

MaryAnne Hurley (M)

Teagasc, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, P61 P302 Co. Cork, Ireland.
School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, D04 V1W8 Dublin 4, Ireland.

Eva Lewis (E)

Devenish Nutrition Limited, Lagan House, 19 Clarendon Road, Belfast BT1 3BG, UK.

Marion Beecher (M)

Teagasc, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, P61 P302 Co. Cork, Ireland.

Brian Garry (B)

Teagasc, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, P61 P302 Co. Cork, Ireland.

Christina Fleming (C)

Teagasc, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, P61 P302 Co. Cork, Ireland.

Tommy Boland (T)

School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, D04 V1W8 Dublin 4, Ireland.

Deirdre Hennessy (D)

Teagasc, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, P61 P302 Co. Cork, Ireland.

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