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Interpretive Summary: Plant tannin for grazing ruminant growth
Tannins have long been used to preserve and tan leather. There are reports of tannin use dating back to the late Neolithic period (Falcão and Araujo, 2018), when aqueous extracts with plant parts were used to prevent the degradation of slaughtered animal…
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Interpretive Summary: Emerging Technology for Quantifying Diet Composition of Grazing Animals
Determining what plants grazing animals are eating has been a persistent challenge for animal and rangeland scientists (Holechek et al. 1982). This challenge not only applies to important livestock species such as cattle, sheep, and horses but also…
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Interpretive Summary: Levels of physically effective neutral detergent fiber from forage and narasin inclusion: performance, carcass traits, meat quality, gastrointestinal fermentation, and rumen histology in feedlot lambs
This study explored how different levels of physically effective neutral detergent fiber from forage (peNDF-F) and the feed additive narasin affect the performance, carcass traits, meat quality, gastrointestinal fermentation, and ruminal papillae…
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