%0 Journal Article
%T EFFECTS OF MAIZE GRAIN ADDED IN A DIET BASED ON ALFALFA HAYLAGE ON THE RATION QUALITY IN WETHER SHEEP
%A Marina Vrani£¿
%A Mladen Kne£¿evi£¿
%A Kre£¿imir Bo£¿njak
%A Goran Per£¿ulija
%J Poljoprivreda (Osijek)
%D 2011
%I Faculty of Agriculture in Osijek
%X The objective of this experiment was to study the effects of interactions between alfalfa haylage (AH) and maize grain (MG) (5 vs. 10 g d-1 kg-1 body weight) on ad libitum intake, water intake and dry matter (DM) digestibility in wether sheep. The AH and MG contained 534.7 and 915.1g DM kg-1 fresh sample respectively, while crude protein (CP) concentration was 141 and 106.0 g kg-1DM. Adding of MG (5 or 10 g kg-1 body weight d-1) into AH based ration resulted in linear increase in diet DM intake (g kg-1 M0,75), linear decrease in water intake (P<0.01) and linear increase in diet DM digestibility(P<0,001). A positive associative response of MG supplementation to AH based ration was observed for DM intake (P<0.001) and DM digestibility (P<0.001). No improvements in DM intake were recorded with 10 g MG added kg-1 body weight d-1 in comparison with 5 g MG added kg-1 body weight d-1.
%K alfalfa haylage
%K maize grain
%K intake
%K digestibility
%U http://www.pfos.hr/~poljo/sites/default/data/2011_1/Poljoprivreda%2012.pdf