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The effect of source of nitrogen used for supplementation of high wheat silage diets for cattle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

A. Brosh ,
Z. Holzer  and
D. Levy
A. Brosh
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Organization, Newe-Ya'ar Experiment Station, PO Haifa 31-999, Israel
Z. Holzer
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Organization, Newe-Ya'ar Experiment Station, PO Haifa 31-999, Israel
D. Levy
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Organization, Newe-Ya'ar Experiment Station, PO Haifa 31-999, Israel
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Abstract

Five diets of identical metabolizable energy (ME) content were formulated, in which wheat silage, made from a variety bred for a high proportion of ears to roughage, was incorporated at the rate of 480 g/kg dry matter (DM). Their calculated ME density was 11-4 MJ/kg DM, the protein concentration of four of the five diets was 150 g/kg DM, and that of the fifth was 87 g/kg DM. The effectiveness of protein supplementation of such diets by non-protein nitrogen (NPN), fish meal (FM) or soya-bean and cottonseed oil meals (SBM and CSM) was studied in a digestibility and nitrogen balance trial, and in a feeding trial using Friesian and beef breed young bulls. One diet served as a negative control (NC). The apparent digestibility of organic matter (kg/kg DM) was 0·709, 0·708, 0·704, 0·680 and 0·667 (s.e. 0·0125) and nitrogen retention (g/kg M0·75 per day) was 0·20, 0·65, 0·65, 0·64 and 0·68 (s.e. 0·059; P < 0·01) for the NC, NPN, FM, CSM and SBM supplemented diets, respectively. The feeding trial was divided into two periods; the first 100 days, and from day 101 to slaughter. The NC groups of both breeds gained significantly less in both periods of the experiment than did the supplemented groups. There were no significant differences among the supplemented groups.

Keywords

cattlenitrogenwheat-silage
Type
Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , August 1990 , pp. 109 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1990

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