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The Composition and Energy value of Big Bale Grass Silages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2017

D.I. Givens ,
Angela R. Moss  and
E.R. Deaville
D.I. Givens
Affiliation:
ADAS Drayton, Feed Evaluation Unit, Stratford-on-Avon, CV37 9RQ, UK
Angela R. Moss
Affiliation:
ADAS Drayton, Feed Evaluation Unit, Stratford-on-Avon, CV37 9RQ, UK
E.R. Deaville
Affiliation:
ADAS Drayton, Feed Evaluation Unit, Stratford-on-Avon, CV37 9RQ, UK
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In recent years the quantity of grass silage as big bales has increased substantially, both in the UK and elsewhere. Eyers (1989) reported that about 16% of the grass silage dry matter (DM) conserved in England and Wales was in the form of big bales.

Whilst there is now considerable information on the composition, nutritive value and laboratory procedures for predicting the digestibility and energy value of clamp silage, there are few comparable data for big bale silages. The objectives of the present work were to examine the composition, digestibility and energy value of a population of big bale silages and to compare relationships between laboratory measurements and digestibility in vivo with those derived earlier for clamp silages (Givens et al., 1989).

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Silage and Feeding Behaviour
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1993: Winter meeting , March 1993 , pp. 137
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1993

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