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Indigestible dry matter as internal marker to estimate digestibility in grazing sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

M. D. Villalbal ,
T. Castro ,
A.R. Mantecón ,
T. Manso ,
M. Riesgo  and
I. salazar
M. D. Villalbal
Affiliation:
Dpto. producción Animal. 28040 Madrid ( Spain)
T. Castro
Affiliation:
Dpto. producción Animal. 28040 Madrid ( Spain)
A.R. Mantecón
Affiliation:
Estación AgrÃcola experimental (CSIC). Apdo. 788. 24080 León (Spain)
T. Manso
Affiliation:
Dpto. producción Animal. 28040 Madrid ( Spain)
M. Riesgo
Affiliation:
Dpto. producción Animal. 28040 Madrid ( Spain)
I. salazar
Affiliation:
Dpto. producción Animal. 28040 Madrid ( Spain)
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The use of Indigestible Dry Matter (IDM) has been proposed to be used as internal marker to estimate digestibility (Milne, 1977, Kotb and Luckey, 1972), but information of reliability of this marker is limited.

The aim of this experiment was to study the effect of sward height and sampling period on Dry-Matter Digestibility of pasture (DMD), using IDM as internal marker.

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Techniques & Methods
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 1995 , March 1995 , pp. 122
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1995

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References

Kotb, A. R. and Luckey, T.D. (1972). Markers in nutrition. Nutr. Abs. Rev., ser. B. 42:813–845.Google ScholarPubMed
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