Calculation of the digestibility and the starch equivalent value of herbages from chemical analyses


Blanche D.E. Gaillard

Department of Animal Physiology, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production. 1968, 28: 49-52

A method is described for the calculation of the digestibility of the organic matter and the starch equivalent value of roughages for ruminants from the contents of cell-wall constituents of the roughage.

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