Productive Performance, Milk Composition and Milk Fatty Acids of Goats Supplemented with Sunflower and Linseed Whole Seeds in Grass Silage-Based Diets by Einar Vargas-Bello-Pérez, Carlos Alberto García Montes de Oca, Nazario Pescador Salas, Julieta G. Estrada Flores, José Romero Bernal, Lizbeth Esmeralda Robles-Jimenez, Manuel Gonzalez-Ronquillo

“…Dry matter intake (1292 ± 14.0 g/d) and digestibility (g/kg) of dry matter (640 ± 32.1), organic matter (668 ± 32.4), neutral detergent fiber (628 ± 41.4) and acid detergent fiber (567 ± 60.9) was not affected by treatments (<i>p</i> > 0.05). …”
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Effect of Prosopis spp. as a nurse plant on nutrient content and productivity of Opuntia ellisiana Griffiths by Josefina María Grünwaldt, Juan Carlos Guevara, Eduardo Martínez Carretero, Eduardo Guillermo Grünwaldt

“…The bromatological values (%) were moisture: 89.1 and 91.9, organic matter (OM): 76.7 and 79.8, CP: 4.4 and 8.1, acid detergent fiber (ADF): 13.7 and 18.2, neutral detergent fiber (NDF): 29.0 and 31.5, K: 3.1 and 3.6, P: 0.07 and 0.11, Ca: 5.5 and 4.4, Na: 0.04 and 0.02, outside and under the canopy, respectively. …”
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Selection of Lactic Acid Bacteria from Alfalfa Silage and Its Effects as Inoculant on Silage Fermentation by Vanessa P. Silva, Odilon G. Pereira, Eliana S. Leandro, Rosinea A. Paula, Mariele C. N. Agarussi, Karina G. Ribeiro

“…For the first harvest, Combo, CI, and all inoculated silages showed lower acid detergent fiber ADF, neutral detergent fiber (NDF), and ammonia nitrogen (NH₃-N), respectively. …”
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Copolymerized Natural Fibre from the Mesocarp of <i>Orbignya phalerata</i> (Babassu Fruit) as an Irrigating-Fertilizer for Growing Cactus Pears by Ricardo Edvan, Mariane Sá, Regina Magalhães, Rafael Ratke, Heldeney R. Sousa, Lucas Mateus Lima Neri, Edson C. Silva-Filho, Jose Pereira Filho, Leilson Bezerra

“…The highest (<i>p</i> < 0.01) neutral detergent fibre content was observed in the ‘Baiana’ and ‘Doce’ cactus genotypes when irrigation occurred with WH treatment, and the highest acid detergent fibre content in the ‘Gigante’ genotype. …”
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Burial, Excavation and Chemical Cleaning - An Economical Approach for Extraction of Human Bones from Embalmed Dissected Cadavers in India by Suniti Raj Mishra, Rahul Singh, Rakesh Shukla, Jigyasa Passey, Shailendra Singh, Sushobhana

“…The bones so extracted were cleaned with a solution of normal water, detergent, bleaching powder and hydrogen peroxide. …”
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Pequi (Caryocar brasiliense Camb.) by-product for lambs: performance, feed intake, and nutrient digestibility by Janaina L. Barbosa, Darcilene M. De-Figueiredo, Ana-Caroline M. De-Castro, Danilo O. Alves, Marcela A. Magalhães, Mário H. F. Mourthé, Marianne Schorer, Gabriel M. Dallago

“…No effect (p>0.05) was also observed on intake of dry matter, organic matter, ether extract, crude protein, neutral detergent fiber, total carbohydrates, and total digestible nutrients. …”
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Effects of Different Additives on Fermentation Quality, Microbial Communities, and Rumen Degradation of Alfalfa Silage by Wenqing Ling, Lei Zhang, Qixian Feng, Abraham Allan Degen, Jue Li, Yue Qi, Yan Li, Yi Zhou, Yijia Liu, Fulin Yang, Jing Zhou

“…The FA treatment reduced (<i>p</i> < 0.05) the pH, as well as the DM and CP degradations, while the CaO treatment increased the degradations of DM, acid detergent fiber, and neutral detergent fiber. We concluded that FA, LB, GLB, and FLB had beneficial effects on alfalfa fermentation, and that CaO increased alfalfa silage rumen degradation.…”
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Sunflower oil supplementation in the diets of lactating cows: productive and nutritional performance by Fábio Antunes Rizzo, Ana Carolina Fluck, Jorge Schafhäuser Junior, Rudolf Brand Scheibler, José Laerte Nörnberg, Diego Prado de Vargas, Lívia Argoud Lourenço, Ana Paula Binato de Souza, Jamir Luís Silva da Silva

“…The increase of EE in diets did not affect the dry matter intake, neutral detergent fiber or crude protein. There was a linear increase in the digestibility coefficients for organic matter, crude protein, EE, neutral detergent fiber and blood levels of cholesterol. …”
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Study on Dynamic Fermentation of Oat Silage Assisted by Exogenous Fibrolytic Enzymes by Wei Liu, Shuai Du, Lin Sun, Zhijun Wang, Gentu Ge, Yushan Jia

“…Based on the low content of water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC) and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) attachment in oat raw materials, we assumed that the neutral detergent fiber (NDF) content of oat can be reduced by adding cellulase or xylanase. …”
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Effect of different tropical roughages on nutrient digestibility and rumen fermentation parameters of West African Dwarf sheep during dry season by R M AKINBODE, O A ISAH, A O ONI, O O ADEWUMI, L A OMONIYI

“…Dry matter, neutral detergent fibre and acid detergent fibre digestibilities were highest in sheep fed on UTST while crude protein digestibility was highest in animals fed on CAHA. …”
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Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of <i>Sorghum bicolor</i> L. under Intercropping with Legumes and Different Weed Control Methods by Saeid Vaezi Rad, Said Ali Reza Valadabadi, Majid Pouryousef, Saeid Saifzadeh, Hamid Reza Zakrin, Andrea Mastinu

“…The highest average acid detergent fiber (ADF), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), and total ash percentage (ASH) were obtained with 100% sorghum + 66% lathyrus and 33% hairy vetch. …”
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Effects of Moisture Content and Silage Starter on the Fermentation Quality and In Vitro Digestibility of Waxy Corn Processing Byproduct Silage by Qixuan Yi, Meng Yu, Peng Wang, Jiarui Du, Tianyue Zhao, Yitong Jin, Hongyu Tang, Bao Yuan

“…After treatment with 60% MC, the content of neutral detergent fibre (NDF) was significantly lower, and the CP content was significantly greater in the WRB mixed silage treated with L (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Productividad y calidad del forraje de Cenchrus clandestinus (Hochst. ex Chiov.) Morrone en dos sistemas pastoriles en la cordillera andina colombiana by Bayron Giovanny Obando-Enríquez, Filadelfo Hernández-Oviedo, Paola Andrea Portillo-López, Edwin Castro-Rincón

“…The variables green forage production, dry matter, crude protein, neutral detergent fiber, acid detergent fiber, dry matter digestibility and net lactation energy were evaluated. …”
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Chemical characterization and in vitro biological activity of four tropical legumes, Styzolobium aterrimum L., Styzolobium deeringianum, Leucaena leucocephala, and Mimosa caesalpin... by C. Longo, J. Hummel, J. Liebich, I.C.S. Bueno, P. Burauel, E.J. Ambrosano, A.L. Abdalla, U.Y. Anele, K.-H. Südekum

“…STA, STD, and LEU contained higher (P &lt; 0.05) crude protein than MIC, which had greater neutral detergent fibre and acid detergent fibre. Total phenols, total tannins, and condensed tannins (CT) were consistently the highest in MIC. …”
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The Influence of Fertilization and Plant Density on the Dry Matter Yield and Quality of Black Mustard [<i>Brassica nigra</i> (L.) Koch]: An Alternative Forage Crop by Stella Karydogianni, Ioannis Roussis, Antonios Mavroeidis, Ioanna Kakabouki, Evangelia Tigka, Dimitrios Beslemes, Panteleimon Stavropoulos, Nikolaos Katsenios, Eleni Tsiplakou, Dimitrios Bilalis

“…Moreover, the highest neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and acid detergent fiber (ADF) contents of above-ground biomass were found under compost and urea with double inhibitors. …”
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Effects of Cellulase and Xylanase on Fermentation Characteristics, Chemical Composition and Bacterial Community of the Mixed Silage of King Grass and Rice Straw by Chenchen Qiu, Nanbing Liu, Xiaogao Diao, Liwen He, Hanlin Zhou, Wei Zhang

“…The addition of cellulase and xylanase decreased (<i>p</i> < 0.05) the content of neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and acid detergent fiber (ADF) significantly and increased (<i>p</i> < 0.01) the crude protein (CP) and water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC) content. …”
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The Effects of Short-Time Delayed Sealing on Fermentation, Aerobic Stability and Chemical Composition on Maize Silages by Natália Nunes de Melo, Paula de Almeida Carvalho-Estrada, Queila Gouveia Tavares, Lucelia de Moura Pereira, Gabriela Leticia Delai Vigne, Douglas Messias Lamounier Camargo Rezende, Patrick Schmidt

“…Crude protein and ash were significantly affected by inoculation, with control treatments showing higher ash and lower protein values. Lignin, neutral detergent fiber, and acid detergent fiber were only affected by the delay period. …”
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The impact of different methods of drying and preparation method on the basic chemical composition of hay by Milan JUGOVIC, Miodrag ZORANOVIC, Mladen IVANISEVIC, Zoran MALICEVIC, Milovan ZIVKOVIC, Tanja JAKISIC

“…The drying method had a statistically high significant difference on the content of neutral detergent fibres (NDF) and acidic detergent fibres (ADF), while the method of storage had no major impact. …”
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Nutritional Value, Fermentation Characteristics and In Vitro Degradability of Whole Wheat Hay Harvested at Three Stages of Maturity by Xiaochen Lang, Meng Yang, Atef M. Saleem, Xiaojing Zhao, Hua Xu, Yan Li, Ruiting Xu, Jiaqiu Cao, Congcong Xu, Yushan Cui, Jia Li, Jiahui Li, Yizhao Shen, Yunqi Li, Jianguo Li, Yanxia Gao

“…In this study, the in vitro digestibility of whole wheat (Nongda 22) hay harvested during the flowering, late milk and dough stages were evaluated using batch culture technique. The neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and acid detergent fiber (ADF) contents of whole wheat hay decreased by 35.5% and 40.4%, respectively, whereas the non-fibrous carbohydrates (NFC) content increased by 50.3% in WCWH harvested during the dough stage as compared to the flowering stage (<i>p</i> < 0.01). …”
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Prediction of the diet nutrients digestibility of dairy cows using Gaussian process regression by Qiang Fu, Weizheng Shen, Xiaoli Wei, Ping Zheng, Hangshu Xin, Chunjiang Zhao

“…The prediction results indicate that the GPR technique is superior to other conventional methods (especially the LS-LRA method) in predicting the main DND indicators of dairy cows such as dry matter digestibility (DMD), organic matter digestibility (OMD), neutral detergent fiber (NDFD), acid detergent fiber (ADFD), and crude protein digestibility (CPD). …”
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