The stability of vit E may be lower in baled silage than in traditional silage [ 5].
Saponin intake was lower with agave silage than fresh.
Over the range of SBM inclusion in this study there were associative effects on methane production (l per day) in experiment 1 (36.4, 35.8, 33.7, 33.7 for proportion of GS 1.00, 0.76, 0.51 and 0.26, respectively), and experiment 2 (35.7, 42.4, 45.2, 43.1 for proportion of GS 1.00, 0.73, 0.52, 0.28, respectively) though the lower intake of silage in experiment 2 may impinge on this.
In silages treated with additives, counts of L. monocytogenes were always lower than in silages without additive.
Similarly, DM, gross energy and cellulose digestibility tended to be lowered in HM silage.
Aerobic stability was not improved by any inoculant but was lower in B500 silages versus others (276 vs. 386 h).
The concentration of acetic acid was lower in the silages treated with S1 and S2 than the CTRL and CIN at 3 and 28 d of fermentation.
In the wettest silages (DM 200 g/kg), counts were reduced to a few hundred per gram, probably because the amounts of organic acids were higher and pH values lower than in silages with higher DM contents.
Dietary intake and duodenal flow of starch were greater and rumen and total tract starch digestibilities were lower for BM3 corn silage diets than ISO corn silage diets.
Total tract digestion of dietary starch was lower for control corn silage (95.1%) compared with fine, medium, and coarse processed corn silage treatments, which averaged 99.3%.
