Voluntary consumption, as a criterion of feeding value of two forage species was further tested by determining the “within species” effect of stage of maturity and of the physical form in which these forages were fed. Chemical composition, digestibility coefficients, voluntary intake and liveweight gains were determined. Various relationships between these factors and their relationship to forage species, stage of maturity and to the physical form in which the forage was fed, were investigated. Voluntary intake of the forages (including the effect of species, stage of maturity and physical form) was highly and significantly correlated to feeding value, whether expressed as digestible energy intake or as liveweight gain.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.111707 |
| Date | January 1959 |
| Creators | Beacom, Stanley. E. |
| Contributors | Crampton, E. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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