Claim · model-written summary
Alfalfa substitution increased digestibility of DM, cell wall and GE in the low-quality diet.
- Taxon
- tall fescue
Lolium arundinaceumt0 - Treatment
- alfalfa substitutione4
- Outcome
- digestibility of these constituentse4
- Direction
- increasede4
- Qualifier
- P less than .03e4
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Verbatim
t0“tall fescue greenchop”
e4“digestibility of these constituents in LQ was increased (P less than .03) by alfalfa substitution”
Title
K. N. Grigsby; C. W. Peters; M. S. Kerley; et al. Journal of Animal Science 1991. doi:10.2527/1991.69114602x
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Alfalfa inclusion did not influence ad libitum DMI of the high-quality tall fescue diet (Period 1).
- Intervention effect Alfalfa inclusion decreased ad libitum DMI during the low-quality period (Period 2).
- Intervention effect Ruminal and total tract DM, cell wall and GE digestibility of the high-quality diet were unaffected by alfalfa inclusion.
- Intervention effect Alfalfa substitution did not influence dietary cell wall monosaccharide disappearance.
- Intervention effect Ruminal CP digestibility was greater when steers received alfalfa.
- Intervention effect Alfalfa inclusion did not enhance microbial efficiency in either the high- or low-quality diet.
- Intervention effect Alfalfa substitution to the low-quality diet showed a non-significant trend toward greater microbial efficiency.
- Intervention effect Ruminal particulate passage rate did not differ between the alfalfa and non-alfalfa treatments for either maturity stage.
- Intervention effect Fluid passage rate was faster in steers fed only low-quality fescue (7.1%/h) than in those fed it substituted with 20% alfalfa (5.0%/h).