Physicochemical characterisation of barley straw treated with sodium hydroxide or urea and its digestibility and in vitro fermentability in ruminants

Abstract The development of strategies to overcome the shortage of forage due to persistently low rainfall is becoming a central task for animal nutrition in research and practice. In this study, it was investigated how the treatment of straw with NaOH or feed urea in a practicable procedure for mod...

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Main Authors: Martin Bachmann, Siriwan D. Martens, Yann Le Brech, Gwendal Kervern, Robin Bayreuther, Olaf Steinhöfel, Annette Zeyner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24738-w