Calculation of the digestibility for ruminants of roughages from the contents of cell-wall constituents.

Authors

  • B.D.E. Gaillard

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18174/njas.v14i3.17465

Abstract

From 29 roughages having a wide range of apparent digestibility, a regression equation was derived for calculating this digestibility from the sum of the contents of lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose and anhydrouronic acid. The correlation coefficient was 0.95, and the standard deviation was 3.2; where lignin alone was used as an independent variable, these values were 0.89 and 4.3 and where crude fibre was used, 0.87 and 4.7, respectively.-A.G.G.H. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

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Published

1966-08-01

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (1966)

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