Farm Animal Metabolism and Nutrition

particles (Van Bruchem et al., 1990). Udén et al. (1980) mordanted plant fibre in a solution with chromium at a concentration of ...

plastic syringe with a wide nozzle, and leaving it soaking overnight before administering it directly into the rumen. Administer ...

flow between solute and particulate matter occurs in the acidic segment of the digestive tract. During in vitro incubation of yt ...

Inorganic^15 nitrogen Inorganic^15 N is often preferred to other isotopic markers for estimating microbial nitrogen synthesis si ...

Intrinsically^14 C- and^3 H-labelled plant material Plant cell walls can be labelled with^14 C by multiple-pulse [^14 C]carbon d ...

leaving the rumen increases with time. Gamma 2 two-compartment models are recommended for small and medium particles, and the ga ...

with Co-EDTA, and could be due to the difference in specific gravity between bacterial spores and Co-EDTA (Mir et al., 1997). Fa ...

results for rumen and duodenal bacteria. Microbial nitrogen flows estimated from (^15) N procedures have been shown to be lower ...

This technique can also be used to estimate the apparent digestibility of nutrient components within the forage, using Equation ...

Chromium oxide has been used to determine the digestibility of amino acids in pigs by ileal and faecal methods of analysis (Li e ...

1991). It is noteworthy that provided a pair of alkanes of similar recoveries are used for intake predictions, their incomplete ...

impossible, to assess accurately the botanical composition of herbage ingested by the grazing herbivore. The microscopic examina ...

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Beauchemin, K.A. and Buchanan-Smith, J.G. (1989) Evaluation of markers, sampling sites and models for estimating rates of passag ...

Dove, H., Siever-Kelly, C., Leury, B.J., Gatford, K.L. and Simpson, R.L. (1992) Using plant wax alkanes to quantify the intake o ...

Kay, R.N.B. (1969) Effect of dietary tannic acid on the solubility of polyethylene glycol. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society ...

Ohajuruka, O.A., Wu, Z. and Palmquist, D.L. (1991) Ruminal metabolism, fiber, and protein digestion by lactating cows fed calciu ...

Susmel, P., Stefanon, B., Spanghero, M. and Mills, C.R. (1996) Ability of mathematical models to predict faecal output with a pu ...

Chapter 13 Methods for Measuring Ileal Amino Acid Digestibility in Pigs W.C. Sauer^1 , M.Z. Fan^2 , R. Mosenthin^3 and W. Drochn ...

the topic of amino acid digestibility in pigs during the last three decades. Evidence indicates that ileal rather than faecal am ...