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Intake And Digestibility Of Fescue Hay Supplemented With Co-Product Feeds, Omega J. Sanders
Intake And Digestibility Of Fescue Hay Supplemented With Co-Product Feeds, Omega J. Sanders
Animal Science Undergraduate Honors Theses
Satisfying an animals' nutritional needs can help optimize performance and keep an animal healthy. Meeting these nutritional requirements is often complicated by the low quality characteristics of hay, requiring supplementation with concentrate feedstuffs to offset this low nutrient density. The objectives of this study were to determine the impact of supplementation with soybean hulls (SH), distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS), or a 50:50 mixture of the two (MIX) on ruminal fermentation characteristics and in situ forage disappearance in lactating and non-lactating ruminally-cannulated cows offered tall fescue hay. For this experiment, a basal diet of tall fescue hay was offered …