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Table 1 Composition of diet fed to cows used for in situ fermentations

From: In Vitro assessment of the nutritive value of expanded soybean meal for dairy cattle

Ingredient

% of dry matter

Alfalfa hay

18.70

Corn silage

21.21

Wet corn gluten feed

31.03

Ground corn grain

10.67

Whole cotton seed

4.68

Ground sorghum grain

4.62

Mechanically extracted soybean meal

4.32

Fish meal

0.31

Cane molasses

0.44

Fat (Megalac-R; Church and Dwight, Princeton, NJ)

0.84

Limestone

1.38

Sodium bicarbonate

1.03

Salt

0.14

Magnesium oxide

0.16

Trace mineral premix1

0.05

Selenium premix, 600 ppm2

0.03

Vitamin premix3

0.19

Ethylenediamine dihydriodide4

+

Rumensin5

0.01

Yeast6

0.19

  1. 1 Zinpro 4-plex (Zinpro, Eden Prairie, MN). Contained zinc methionine, manganese methionine, copper lysine, and cobalt glucoheptonate. Provided to final diet (mg/kg dry matter): Zn, 14; Mn, 8; Cu, 5; Co, 1
  2. 2 Provided 0.19 mg Se/kg diet dry matter as sodium selenite
  3. 3 Provided 3,600 IU vitamin A, 1,600 IU vitamin D, and 76 IU vitamin E per kg diet dry matter
  4. 4 Provided 0.38 mg ethylenediamine dihydriodide/kg diet dry matter
  5. 5 Provided 11 mg monensin/kg diet dry matter (Elanco Animal Health, Greenfield, IN)
  6. 6 Culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Diamond V XP; Cedar Rapids, IA)
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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

ISSN: 2049-1891