They also received 4.2 kg concentrate consisting of 2.2 kg corn pellets (Landi, Schneisingen) and 1.5 kg and 0.5 kg of a 17% and 39% protein mix, respectively (UFA, Lenzburg, Switzerland) twice daily.
A mixed microalgal concentrates consisting of 50/50 % C. calcitrans and T. suecica was replaced by flocculated concentrates at different ratios (0 % (control), 25, 50, 75 and 100%%).
The basal concentrate diet consisted of a mixture of 50% commercial concentrate and 50% wheat bran fed at 4 kg/horse, offered twice daily at 04:00 and 16:00 hours, and oat straw offered ad libitum at 05:00 and 17:00 hours.
The basal concentrate diet consisted of a mixture of 50% commercial concentrates and 50% wheat bran fed at 4 kg/mare and offered twice daily at 04:00 and 16:00 hours, while oat straw was offered ad libitum at 05:00 and 17:00 hours.
The concentrate mix consisted of soybean meal, canola cake, and beet pulp.
The researchers used a fermionic concentrate that consisted of a cloud of lithium atoms suspended as a gas in a vacuum trap.
The concentrate diets consisted of either 20 or 40% wheat dried distiller's grain with solubles (WDDGS) or 60% barley (control), diets were formulated following NRC requirements for growing lambs.
In experiment 1, treatments were a high concentrate diet (HC) that consisted of 7 kg per day of concentrate with barley straw offered ad libitum, and a low concentrate diet (LC) consisting of 1 kg of the same concentrate and alfalfa hay offered likewise, with (700 mg per day) or without addition of EOB.
