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United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications
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Effects Of Including Saponins (Micro-Aid®) On Intake, Rumenfermentation And Digestibility In Steers Fed Low-Qualityprairie Hay, C P. Mcmurphy, A J. Sexten, G L. Mourer, E D. Sharman, S J. Trojan, M J. Rincker, W K. Coblentz, D L. Lalman
Effects Of Including Saponins (Micro-Aid®) On Intake, Rumenfermentation And Digestibility In Steers Fed Low-Qualityprairie Hay, C P. Mcmurphy, A J. Sexten, G L. Mourer, E D. Sharman, S J. Trojan, M J. Rincker, W K. Coblentz, D L. Lalman
United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications
Sixteen ruminally cannulated crossbred steers (529 ± 45 kg initial body weight, BW) wereused to evaluate in situ dry matter (DM), neutral detergent fiber (aNDF), and N degrada-tion characteristics of low-quality prairie hay, blood urea-N (BUN) and rumen fermentationparameters in steers provided a protein supplement with or without Micro-Aid®(MA; plantderived saponin). Steers were allowed ad libitum access to chopped prairie hay (49 g crudeprotein (CP)/kg DM and 738 g aNDF/kg DM) and randomly assigned to one of four treat-ments: (1) no supplement (C), (2) cottonseed meal and wheat middlings: 920 g DM/d (PC;positive control), (3) MA added to PC to …