Digestion, rumen fermentation and circulating concentrations of insulin, growth hormone and IGF-1 in steers fed diets based on different proportions of maize silage and grass silage

Replacing grass silage with maize silage results in a fundamental change in the ratio of structural to non-structural carbohydrates with commensurate changes in rumen fermentation patterns and nutrient utilisation. This study investigated the effects of feeding four forage mixtures, namely grass sil...

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Published in:	Animal
Main Authors:	D.T. Juniper, E.M. Browne, M.J. Bryant, D.E. Beever
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2008-01-01
Subjects:	grass insulin maize silage VFA
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731108001857