Determination of the yield characteristics and in vitro digestibility of barley forage harvested in different vegetation periods

Güney M., Kale Ç., Bolat D., Deniz S.

INDIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL RESEARCH, cilt.50, sa.6, ss.947-950, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 50 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Doi Numarası: 10.18805/ijar.9365
  • Dergi Adı: INDIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL RESEARCH
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.947-950
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Barley forage, Digestibility, Digestible yields, Energy yields, In vitro, QUALITY, SILAGE, VARIETIES, MIXTURES, OAT
  • Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study planned to determine the differences among nutrient composition, in vitro digestibility, energy content, digestible dry matter and organic matter yields of barley forage harvested at three different stages of maturity. Each vegetation period (heading stage, seed formation stage and mature stage) was randomly assigned to 5 replication from 1 square meter area and fifteen samples were harvested in total. DM, ADF (p<0.001), and NDF (p<0.05) contents were different in each stages of barley forage. In vitro dry matter (IVDMD), organic matter digestibility (IVOMD), metabolizable energy (ME), and net energy for lactation (NEL) values of samples were determined to be lower than the other two stages at the mature stage (p<0.05). Yield parameters of barley were significantly affected by vegetation period (p<0.001). It can be concluded that all three vegetation period had significantly higher digestibility. Digestible DM, OM and energy yields were higher when harvested at the mature stage of vegetation.