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Determination of intake and digestibility of pasture forages using conventional and indicator techniques

Creator:

Alpan, Suleyman Orhan

Abstract:

Digestibility experiments were carried out with dairy heifers to determine the digestibility of orchard grass, Dactylis glomerata, and also to evaluate the accuracy of various indicator techniques in pasture digestibility experiments. Chromic oxide was used as an external indicator to predict fecal dry matter output in three digestion trials. Cut...

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Masters Thesis

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various sampling times. Stevenson (95, p. 339 -345) studied the possible errors in the 22