ANFS251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lolium Perenne, Hemicellulose, Monogastric

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Depends on what they are doing? (life cycle nutrition) Review the plants that animals eat ( this lecture) Legumes are beans (ex soybeans) or forage (like alfalfa and clover) Grasses are things like timothy, rye, and fescue. Both can be preserved (hay) or fresh (pasture) Silage is another wat to preserve these plants. All above are forages or roughages except for beans and cereal grains. Collections of plants that ruminants and non-ruminant herbivores graze and eat. Complimentary grouping of plant seeds to plant, fertilize, and manage feed. Excess growth (beyond what the animal can graze) harvested and pres. A combination of grasses and legumes (not the bean legumes) is common. Tall fescue is the primary cool season grass in the eastern us. Kentucky 31 tall fescue contains an endophyte (fungus) that produces ergot alkaloi. Endophyte free versions are available but don"t grow as well.

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