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  • Title: Starch and stage of maturity of grass silage: site of digestion and intestinal nutrient supply in dairy cows.
    Author: van Vuuren AM, Klop A, van der Koelen CJ, de Visser H.
    Journal: J Dairy Sci; 1999 Jan; 82(1):143-52. PubMed ID: 10022016.
    Abstract:
    The interaction between the quality of grass silage and starch supplementation on ruminal digestion was studied in an experiment with a 2 x 2 factorial design using four dairy cows. Treatment factors were grass silage harvested after either 21 or 37 d of regrowth and two concentrations of steam-flaked corn starch (0 or 4 kg/d). Ruminal volume and flow of duodenal digesta were estimated. When forage was harvested at a more mature stage, only minor effects were noted for silage composition and, consequently, ruminal and intestinal digestion. The addition of starch to the diet tended to reduce ruminal digestion of neutral detergent fiber. The reduction in ruminal digestion was not compensated by increased digestion in the large intestine. Starch increased duodenal nonammonia N flow because of an increase in bacterial N flow. The increase in bacterial N was accompanied by a reduction in the escape of feed N from the rumen. Results from this study indicate that the addition of ruminally available starch to diets based on grass silage reduced ruminally degradable neutral detergent fiber and increased the duodenal supply of protein. These effects have to be taken into account to predict production responses to extra starch.
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