Increasing the proportion of dry hay increased sorting.
Feeding long alfalfa hay increased selective consumption of fine particles.
Adding Leymus chinensis hay increased neutral detergent fiber content and in vitro digestibility of the diet.
Supplemental hay increased starch plus free glucose digestibility through changes in rumen digestion kinetics.
Moreover, feeding of cowpea hay increased apparent total tract digestibility of DM, organic matter, CP and neutral detergent fiber.
Bacterial DM, bacterial absorbance and the volume of gas produced in the absence of substrate increased as the ratio of sheep pellet to hay increased.
Therefore, CS partially replacing short alfalfa hay increased DM intake, consequently increased net energy for lactation and physically effective fiber intakes, and thus, improved milk and milk protein and lactose yields.
However, when feeding a 50 50 F C diet, feeding long corn silage TMR or supplementing the diet with grass hay increased rumen pH, acetate-to-propionate ratio in the rumen, and rate of recovery from SARA.
Similarly, no treatment effects were detected for kinetics of NDF disappearance in situ from CMP or respective forage source or for N disappearance in situ from CMP. Grass hay increased total and liquid pool size of rumen contents compared with AH (by 3.2 and 3.0 kg, respectively).
The volume of stored hay increased several times in comparison to the years before Polish accession to the EU.
In effect, the number of damage and amount of compensation paid for damage to hay increased threefold after 2004, while compensation claims for other crops did not change.
