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Prediction of the metabolisable energy content of whole crop wheat from chemical composition, in vitro digestibility and near infrared reflectance spectroscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2021

A T Adesogan ,
D I Givens  and
E Owen
A T Adesogan
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, The University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AT, UK Now at Welsh Institute of Rural Studies, Llanbadarn Campus, University of Wales, Aberystwyth SY23 3AL, UK
D I Givens
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, The University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AT, UK
E Owen
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture, The University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading, Berkshire RG6 6AT, UK
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Extract

Public attitudes and expense encourage the replacement of in vivo forage evaluation techniques with non-invasive, laboratory-based techniques. This study assessed the accuracy of predicting the metabolisable energy (ME) content of whole crop wheat (WCW) from less animal-dependent techniques.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 1997 , 1997 , pp. 204
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1997

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