Effect of replacing corn straw by sweet sorghum silage or whole plant corn silage in sheep diets on rumen fermentation and bacterial flora
Sweet sorghum silage (SS; Sorghum dochna ‘Dochna’) has been extensively studied in recent years as a supplementary forage-to-corn silage (CS; Zea mays L.), but there are still relatively few studies on its effects on the rumen environment of sheep. Determining the short-term impact of converting rou...
Main Authors: | X. Gao, M.J. Hou, X.Y. Fu, H.C. Wang, Z.H. Shang, H.D. Zhu |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-08-01
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Series: | Animal |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731123002033 |
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