(1) The energy value of feed consumed by cattle grazing cornstalks decreases with time, and complex interactions between protein needs and energy intake may occur.
(2) Diet composition and the relationships between daily gain of calves grazing cornstalks and certain characteristics of the available residue and diets selected by esophageally fistulated cattle were studied in two trials during November and December of 1984 (Trial 1) and of 1986 (Trial 2).
(3) Three grazing trials were conducted to evaluate yield, relative plant part composition, quality and utilization (disappearance) of corn crop residues by growing cattle in both dryland and irrigated cornstalk fields.
(4) All plant parts and leaf plus husk from dryland cornstalks had more CP (P less than .05) and less NDF (P less than .05) than did these plant parts from irrigated fields.
(5) Steers grazing irrigated cornstalks selected a diet with more (P less than .05) starch and less (P less than .05) CP than those grazing dryland fields.
(6) Two trials were conducted to study the protein requirements of growing cattle grazing cornstalks.
(7) In the growth trial, no interaction of cornstalk quality and monensin was observed (P less than .38).
(8) A simulation model was developed to predict corn crop residue yield and quality and intake and performance of growing cattle grazing cornstalks.
(9) The contaminated feedstuffs in connection with the affected horses and rabbits, included cereal grains (corn, cornstalks, bran and barley), whereas fescue hay was associated with the mucocutaneous findings in the bovine episode.
(10) Chenand his wife have piled up cornstalks outside their windows to try to prevent people looking in.
(11) More (P less than .05) total residue was available from irrigated than from dryland cornstalks, but dryland cornstalks had a higher (P less than .05) proportion of leaf plus husk.
Silage
Definition:
(n. & v.) Short for Ensilage.
Example Sentences:
(1) These percentages suggest that a better fermentation took place in those silages containing forages.
(2) Preserving alfalfa as silage and feeding in a TMR to cows in early lactation resulted in greater milk production via increased DMI or improved feed efficiency compared with preserving alfalfa as hay and feeding grain separately.
(3) 2, measurements were performed on ground alfalfa hay, alfalfa silage, and bromegrass hay containing 42.6, 35, and 66.4% NDF, respectively.
(4) Nevertheless, the food conversion index of the chicks consuming the diet prepared with fish silage proved to be better that the conversion index of the diet prepared with fish and soy flours.
(5) The principle’s not so different now.” Fifteen years ago, when he was 27, Baker found himself with an ailing father and 250 cows, farmed traditionally – grass in summer, silage and concentrates in winter – around the village.
(6) Extent of digestion of the hemicellulosic monosaccharides, xylose, and uronic acids was higher in situ for brown midrib silages compared with normal genotypes.
(7) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
(8) Cows were fed a 60:40 corn silage: concentrate diet ad libitum and milked at 12-h intervals.
(9) Total mixed diets (average 17.3% CP, 17.6% ADF) consisting of 60% concentrate mixture and 40% bromegrass silage (DM basis) were fed twice daily.
(10) Apparent digestibilities of DM, OM, CP, neutral detergent solubles and permanganate lignin were higher (P less than .01) and digestibilities of NDF and ADF, hemicellulose and cellulose were lower (P less than .01) for steers consuming alfalfa compared to orchardgrass silage.
(11) Three trials were conducted at the beginning of lactation, with maize silage, grass silage or grass silage and hay based diets.
(12) Total mixed diets containing 25% corn silage, 25% alfalfa hay, and 50% of respective concentrate mixtures were fed individually wk 4 through 16 postpartum; pretreatment (wk 3 postpartum), milk production, and composition data were used as covariates.
(13) Starch in the silage was not utilized by S. bovis as had been anticipated.
(14) The six silage treatments were untreated corn silage (low nitrogen); untreated corn silage and untreated alfalfa silage (1:1); untreated corn silage and formaldehyde and formic acid-treated alfalfa silage (1:1); ammonia-treated corn silage (low nitrogen); treated corn silage and untreated alfalfa silage (1:1); or treated corn silage and treated alfalfa silage (1:1).
(15) The results show that contact with dust from the surface of silage carries the risk of exposure to high concentrations of microorganisms, of which A. fumigatus and endotoxin-producing bacteria are the most probable disease agents.
(16) Kinetics of hydration of ground hay and silage particles (2-mm screen), determined by a pycnometric technique, was best described by a two- and one-pool exponential model, respectively.
(17) These results indicate that corn silage, because of greater energy concentration, was a more desirable forage in feedlot diets composed of less than or equal to 40% forage and that protein type (soybean meal and fish meal) in growing diets is not an important factor in feedlot performance or carcass traits of Holstein or crossbred steers that are fed these diets.
(18) Heat treatment inhibited protease activity; protein N accounted for 33.5 and 61.3% and ammonia N 15.5 and 5.1% of total N in C and H silages, respectively.
(19) The assay also successfully detected and measured specific anti-LLO antibodies in the sera of silage-fed sheep among which listeric enteritis and abortions had occurred.
(20) Feeding hay did not increase FFA-22 content in milk compared with pasture, but grass silage feeding enhanced FFA-22 content in milk compared with pasture (+130%) or hay (+93%).