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Digestible cell wall and undigested cellular contents of two grasses of low net energy value for growing cattle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

K. W. Moir
K. W. Moir
Affiliation:
Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Animal Research Institute, Yeerongpilly, Brisbane 4105, Australia
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Abstract

SUMMARY

In two grasses of low net energy value for growth and fattening of cattle, digestible cell-wall values were close to 40% of forage organic matter (OM), similar to the expected value for grass. A value of 14% of forage OM for apparently undigested cellular contents in both grasses was just outside the range of values for grass. The data supported previous evidence that total cell wall is the only value that can be used at present to define grass in terms of its digestible dry matter.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 99 , Issue 1 , August 1982 , pp. 207 - 208
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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