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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972)

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Prediction of voluntary intake of grass silage by lactating cows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

A. J. Rook ,
M. Gill  and
R. D. Willink
A. J. Rook
Affiliation:
AFRC Institute for Grassland and Animal Production, Hurley, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 5LR
M. Gill
Affiliation:
AFRC Institute for Grassland and Animal Production, Hurley, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 5LR
R. D. Willink
Affiliation:
AFRC Institute for Grassland and Animal Production, Hurley, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 5LR
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Prediction of voluntary food intake is Important in the formulation of rations for dairy cows. There are a number of prediction models which perform relatively well for diets based on dry forages but not for silage based diets (Neal, Thomas and Cobby, 1984). Prediction of intake of silage based diets is particularly important in the UK where 0.85 of the conserved forage fed to dairy cows is silage. A large and increasing proportion of herds are fed silage ad-libitum and concentrates at a flat rate. This study was an attempt to produce better prediction models for voluntary intake of silage by dairy cows under this feeding regime.

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Silage Additives and Animal Production
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1990 , March 1990 , pp. 61
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1990

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Neal, H. D. St C, Thomas, C. and Cobby, J. 1984. J. agrlc. Sci. Camb. 103: 1–10.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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