Forage intake and botanical composition of feed for cattle fed Brachiaria/legume mixtures Consumo e composição da forragem ingerida por bovinos alimentados com Brachiaria e uma leguminosa

A key contribution to study the cycling of nutrients in soil/plant/animal systems is the evaluation of the consumption of forage and their nutrients by cattle. The objective of this study was to test techniques to evaluate faecal production, in vitro digestibility, forage consumption and the proport...

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Main Authors: Robert Macedo, Ricardo Martinez Tarré, Elvino Ferreira, Claudia de Paula Rezende, José Marques Pereira, Georg Cadisch, Janaina Ribeiro Costa Rouws, Bruno José Rodrigues Alves, Segundo Urquiaga, Robert Michael Boddey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2010-08-01
Series:Scientia Agricola
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162010000400002