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The indirect estimation of the digestibility in cattle of herbage from Belgian permanent pasture
Author(s) -
BARTIAUXThill NICOLE,
OGER ROBERT
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
grass and forage science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1365-2494
pISSN - 0142-5242
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2494.1986.tb01813.x
Subject(s) - lolium perenne , pasture , agronomy , organic matter , nitrogen , grazing , zoology , lolium , dry matter , poaceae , biology , environmental science , chemistry , ecology , organic chemistry
Relationships between herbage organic matter digestibility measured in vivo , and faecal nitrogen concentration were determined. Measurements of in vivo digestibility were made on twenty‐nine herbages, cut from mixed improved permanent pastures with Lolium perenne as the predominant grass and offered ad libitum to cattle. The faecal nitrogen index predicted the herbage digestibility with good accuracy, and the equations obtained should have application for such determinations on Belgian pastures.