%0 Journal Article
%T In vitro fermentation of ten cultivars of barley silage
%A Raffaella Tudisco
%A Serena Calabr¨°
%A Valeria Terzi
%A Vincenzo Piccolo
%J Italian Journal of Animal Science
%D 2010
%I PAGEPress Publications
%R 10.4081/ijas.2009.s2.343
%X The fermentation characteristics of whole-crop barley silages from ten different cultivars were evaluated by the in vitro gas production technique. The organic matter degradability of barley silage (62.9% in average) was comparable to those reported in our previous trials for oat (59.7%) and sorghum silages (65.5%); while the maximum gas production rate (5.38 ml/h in average) was slightly lower respect to oat (6.71 ml/h) and sorghum silage (6.74 ml/h). The mean nutritive value (4.00 MJ/kg DM) calculated on the basis of both chemical composition and in vitro fermentation data was comparable to that (4.16 MJ/kg DM) obtained in our previous research performed on corn silage, from crop sowed in the same area.
%K Barley
%K In vitro gas production technique
%K Ensilage
%U http://www.aspajournal.it/index.php/ijas/article/view/452