Sugar cane treated with calcium hydroxide in diet for cattle: intake, digestibility of nutrients and ingestive behaviour

Sugar cane treated with calcium hydroxide in diet for cattle: intake, digestibility of nutrients and ingestive behaviour

The objective of this work was to evaluate, in bovines, the intake and apparent digestibility of nutrients, ingestive behaviour and content of total digestible nutrients (TDN) of diets based on sugar cane treated with calcium hydroxide. It was used four cows with average body weight of 412.06 kg ± 3...

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Main Authors: Alexandre Menezes Dias, Luís Carlos Vinhas Ítavo, Julio Cesar Damasceno, Geraldo Tadeu dos Santos, Camila Celeste Brandão Ferreira Ítavo, Fabiano Ferreira da Silva, Ériklis Nogueira, Cláudia Muniz Soares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia 2011-08-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
Subjects:
alkaline hydrolysis
chemical treatment
hydrated lime
ruminant nutrition
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982011000800025

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