Sentence examples for chop length from inspiring English sources
Reducing the alfalfa chop length did not affect feed intake, whereas reducing the oat silage chop length increased DM intake from to 19.4 to 21.2 kg/d.
Masticate mean particle length was unaffected by chop length in unprocessed and processed corn silage treatments.
With lactating cows, DMI and milk yield varied with corn hybrids but not with chop length.
Longer chop length increased rumination times per kilogram of DM intake (+2.8 min/kg) relative to the S chop length, with HLL diets resulting in the most rumination chews.
Within the processed corn silage treatments, there were no chop length effects on intake, milk production, or milk composition.
Dry matter intake was unaffected by corn silage processing, but increasing corn silage chop length reduced dry matter intake in unprocessed (26.6 vs. 25.5 kg/d) and processed (25.9 vs. 25.1 kg/d) chop length contrasts.
Diets were designed with two forage-to-concentrate ratios (low forage, 45:55, high forage 55 45), combined with two theoretical chop lengths of barley silage (short = 4.68 mm and long = 18.75 mm).
The opposing effect of total tract starch and fiber digestibilities between chop lengths may have contributed to the lack of difference in energy content of the diets in experiment 2. The TDN and NEL concentrations of the processed corn silage diets were greater than the unprocessed corn silage diets in experiment 1.
The results suggest that MS with a theoretical chopping length of 9 mm at harvest can be used as sole roughage source in beef cattle diets, without adverse effects on DMI, ADG, feeding behavior and health status of the animals.
Maize was harvested with a maize forager set at a chopping length of 10 mm.
