The Nutritive Value Index Has used to determine the effect of stage of maturity on the feeding value of Timothy hay when fed to sheep. The Nutritive Value Index was found to be highly significantly correlated with forage protein content and with the energy available for productive purposes. A significant decline in the feeding value of Timothy hay was observed with advances in stage of maturity. The close relationship between the Nutritive Value Index and the digestibility of cellulose in vitro indicated the usefulness of the latter procedure in predicting the feeding value of forages.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.112837 |
| Date | January 1960 |
| Creators | Jeffers, Hugh. F. |
| 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 | Master of Science. (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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