Determination of forage quality of available species is one of the fundamentalfactors for the management of rangelands. Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS)was used to analysis the Nitrogen (N), Acid Detergent Fiber (ADF), Dry MatterDigestibility (DMD) and Metabolizable Energy (ME) content of three phenological stages(vegetative, flowering and seeding) of Bromus tomentellus samples in ...

This study was carried out to determine the nutritional value of different chickpea varieties using in vitro gas production technique.As a result, significant variations in terms of chemical composition, gas production rate and metabolizable energy, net lactation energy and digestible organic matter were found among the 8 different chickpea varieties. The crude protein contents of chickpea vari...

The aim of this study was to determine the chemical composition of stem and compost of the button mushroom to estimate metabolizable energy (ME) and net energy of lactation (NEl) using gas production method and to determine the amount of dry matter disappearance (DMD) using in vitro technique. This study was conducted in a completely randomized design with three treatments o...

Abstract. Information on forage quality in phenological stage could help range managers to choose suitable grazing method to achieve higher animal performance without detriment to vegetation. Vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanioides) is a non-native perennial grass that was introduced to the Iran in 2008. This plant is a multi use species that could be considered from different viewpoints. Thus, it...

this study was conducted to determine nutritive value of common animal feed sources in east azerbaijan province including second cutting of alfalfa hay ( n=35) and wheat straw (n=26). chemical composition and mineral contents of alfalfa hay and wheat straw were determined according to standard methods. then the average chemical compositions of these samples were compared with those of the gilan...

A study was conducted with the objective to identify adaptable and chemical composition of Lablab varieties. Three Beresa-17, Gabis-55 Local variety +were tested in randomized complete block design (RCBD) three replications. The result revealed that date maturity significantly (p 0.05) differ among analyzed compositions indicated, Beresa-17 had highest Organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP), n...

The purpose of the current work was to designate effect maturity stages potential nutritive value, chemical composition, condensed tannin (CT), gas production (GP), methane production, metabolizable energy (ME), and organic matter digestibility (OMD) Rheum ribes L. Maturity significantly affected (P<0.05) CT, GP, ME OMD Dry (DM), crude ash (CA), protein (CP), ether extract (EE), neutral ...

This study was conducted to determinate of yield and some quality characters sorghum cultivars in Usak province 2014. In the used four sudangrass hybrid (Aneto, Sugar Graze II, Greengo, Nutri Honey) two (Teide Rox). The experiment carried out completely randomized block design with three replicates. study, plant height, herbage yield, hay crude protein (CP) ratio, yields, acid detergent fiber (...

E. coli 0157:H7 is an emerging food-borne pathogen implicated in several outbreaks. Fecal shedding of the pathogen constitutes the mode of entry into the human food chain. We compared the influence of dietary acid-detergent fiber (ADF) concentration on fecal shedding of the pathogen and meat production efficiency of lambs. Fourteen growingfinishing Suffolk ram lambs averaging 28 1.3 kg in body ...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of inoculation of homo-fermentative lactic acid bacteria(lab) on ensiling characteristics and nutritive value of low dry matter corn silage (ldmcs). corn foragewas harvested at milk stage (22.8 ± 0.9% dm), chopped at theoretical length of cut (tlc) 2.5 cm, and stored in eighteen 3.8 l mini silos for each treatment. the following treatments were u...