Sixty multiprious Holstein cows were fed treatment diets from 11 to 40 d postpartum with corn silage as the forage. Treatment diets each contained a different supplemental protein: 1) solvent soybean meal; 2) extruded soy product; 3) combination of corn gluten meal and distillers dried grains with solubles; and 4) a combination of protein sources from diets 2 and 3. Covariate adjusted means for...

Degradation of plant N in the rumen results in the formation of ammonia-N and NAN. Rumen bacteria utilise these breakdown products to synthesise their cell proteins. This study was carried out to investigate the in vivo degradation of N-labelled duckweed in the rumen and the utilisation of the degradation products by rumen bacteria. We found that duckweed protein was relatively resistant to rum...