Sentence examples for forage diet from inspiring English sources

The males - plus any females that weren't required as herd replacements - could be economically fattened for beef on a largely forage diet.

In a week, we could choke O157 from its favorite home — even if beef cattle were switched to a forage diet just seven days before slaughter, it would greatly reduce cross-contamination by manure of, say, hamburger in meat-packing plants.

Fermentors were fed once daily (40 g of dry matter; 50 50 concentrate:forage diet).

Eight lactating ruminally cannulated cows were assigned to 1 of 2 groups: HR, early lactation cows fed a 45% forage diet, or LR, midlactation cows fed a 60% forage diet.

Six lactating Holstein cows, individually fed once per day, were provided each of 2 diets in a crossover design (dry matter basis): 1) a higher forage diet (HF; 62.3% forage), and 2) a lower forage diet (LF; 50.7% forage).

In trial 2, 26 multiparous Holstein cows were assigned randomly to diets containing either conventional (48% forage diet) or brown-midrib (60% forage diet) corn silage in a crossover design with 8-wk periods.

The high-forage diet had the highest concentrations of riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, and folates, whereas the low-forage diet had the highest thiamine concentration.

Treatments were a low-forage diet (LF), containing 20% (dry matter basis) forage neutral detergent fiber (NDF), and a high-forage diet (HF), containing 27% forage NDF.

Feeding brown-midrib corn silage in a high-forage diet increased milk fat percentage and yield compared with conventional corn silage fed in a normal-forage diet.

Dry matter intake was 1.7 kg/d higher for cows fed the low-forage diet.

All heifers were fed a high-forage diet containing 0.14% P throughout the study.