Moreover, the low silage fed animals had higher fatness scores than those fed the high silage diet.
However, in the muscle, the expression levels tended to be lower in the high silage fed animals.
Stem dominated the grass fraction in rumens with high grass content, indicating ruminal indigestion as a cause of emaciation in silage fed animals.
In herd B, where 6 out of 7 analysed animals had been fed grass silage for 2 4 weeks, the rumen content was highly dominated by grasses (mean 90%, range 86 94%).
The most practical way to inhibit the survival of L. monocytogenes in grass silage appears to be to produce intensively fermented silages and store the silage for more than 30 days.
The natural habitats of M. wolfii include moldy grass in silage, and infected animals might inhale spores from contaminated silage or acquire them through digestive tract ulcerations after ingestion of semen (4 ).
The botanical analysis of rumen content in our material showed that silage-fed animals had a high proportion of grass stem in their rumen content.
Silage effluent contains high amount of nutrients, and has a potential for animal feed use [ 5].
In the larger fields, the cycle might be onions, wheat, beans, red clover (which goes into silage, or fermented animal fodder) and white clover (on which animals will graze).
Cratylia mollis and C. argentea are multipurpose shrub legumes with high potential for animal nutrition due to their nutritive value, particularly for dry season supplementation and silage (Argel and Lascano, 1998), and also show also tolerance to drought and adaptation to acidic soils (Andersson et al., 2006).
