The effects of the forage-to-concentrate ratio on the conversion of digestible energy to metabolizable energy in growing beef steers.
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DOI: 10.1093/jas/skaa231
Abstract: Metabolizable energy (ME) is calculated from digestible energy (DE) using a constant conversion factor of 0.82. Methane and urine energy losses vary across diets and dry matter intake (DMI) suggesting that a static conversion factor… read more here.
Keywords: gei; forage concentrate; energy; linearly decreased ... See more keywords