Abstract
1. Digestibility trials, using sheep, were carried out on five batches of oat hay grown during 2 years; nitrogen balance experiments were made simultaneously. 2. The oat hay was not readily consumed by the sheep; this necessitated calculating the digestibility data on an ‘as consumed’ and on an ‘as offered’ basis; it also prevented a majority of the sheep from obtaining their maintenance requirements of energy or from maintaining nitrogen equilibrium. 3. Statistical analysis of the data revealed a downward drift in digestibility in the succeeding periods of the 1955 trial. 4. While stage of maturity had little consistent effect on digestibility or on the amounts of digestible nutrients present, the percentage digestible crude protein did increase with advance in maturity. 5. The amounts of digestible nutrients present in oat hay indicated that it had a nutritive value between those of oat straw and medium-quality meadow hay. 6. The data suggest that the maximum yield of digestible nutrients is obtained when the oat hay is cut at the ‘late cheesy’ stage of maturity.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Statistical analysis showed a downward drift in oat hay digestibility over the succeeding periods of the 1955 trial.
- Taxon
- oat
Avena sativat0 - Outcome
- digestibilitye0
- Direction
- downward drifte0
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Verbatim
e0“Statistical analysis of the data revealed a downward drift in digestibility in the succeeding periods of the 1955 trial”
t0“oat hay”
Claim · model-written summary
Stage of maturity had little consistent effect on oat hay digestibility or amounts of digestible nutrients.
- Taxon
- oatAvena sativat0
- Treatment
- stage of maturitye0
- Outcome
- digestibility or on the amounts of digestible nutrientse0
- Direction
- little consistent effecte0
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Verbatim
e0“stage of maturity had little consistent effect on digestibility or on the amounts of digestible nutrients present”
t0“oat hay”
Claim · model-written summary
The percentage of digestible crude protein in oat hay increased with advance in maturity.
- Taxon
- oatAvena sativat0
- Treatment
- advance in maturitye0
- Outcome
- percentage digestible crude proteine0
- Direction
- increasee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the percentage digestible crude protein did increase with advance in maturity”
t0“oat hay”
Claim · model-written summary
Digestible nutrients present indicated oat hay has a nutritive value between oat straw and medium-quality meadow hay.
- Taxon
- oatAvena sativat0
- Outcome
- nutritive valuee0
- Qualifier
- between those of oat straw and medium-quality meadow haye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“it had a nutritive value between those of oat straw and medium-quality meadow hay”
t0“oat hay”
Claim · model-written summary
The data suggest maximum yield of digestible nutrients is obtained when oat hay is cut at the late cheesy stage of maturity.
- Taxon
- oatAvena sativae0
- Outcome
- maximum yield of digestible nutrientse0
- Qualifier
- cut at the ‘late cheesy’ stage of maturitye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the maximum yield of digestible nutrients is obtained when the oat hay is cut at the ‘late cheesy’ stage of maturity”