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100 1 _aMccaughey, W. P.
_9125527
700 1 _aWittenberg, K.
_9125528
700 1 _aCorrigan, D.
_9125529
245 1 0 _aMethane production by steers on pasture / W. P. McCaughey; K. Wittenberg; D. Corrigan
264 1 _aOttawa
_bAgricultural Institute of Canada
_c1997
300 _a6 p.
500 _aSeparata: Can J An Scs Ottawa : Agricultural Institute of Canada.
520 _aAbstract In order to determine the quantity of methane (CH4) produced by steers on pasture, 16 steers with a mean weight of 356 +/- 25 kg were randomly selected from a larger group of cattle (n = 48) to evaluate the effects of grazing management and monensin controlled release capsule (CRC) administration on ruminal CH4 production using the sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) tracer-gas technique. Pasture management treatments consisted of two grazing systems (continuous stocking or 10-paddock rotational stocking) at each of two stocking rates (low, 1.1 steer ha-1 or high, 2.2 steers ha-1) with two replications of each pasture treatment. Half of the animals on each pasture treatment were administered a monensin CRC delivering 270 mg d-1, and untreated animals served as controls. During the 140-d grazing season, one steer from each treatment-replicate combination was sampled to determine daily intake and CH4 production on four occasions. The chemical composition of diets differed between grazing management treatments and sampling periods. Voluntary intake and CH4 production, adjusted for differences in body weight, were unaffected by grazing management, sampling period or by monensin CRC administration and averaged 0.69 +/- 0.1 L kg BW-1 d-1 across all grazing management treatments. The energy lost through eructation of CH4 averaged 4.5 +/- 1.4% of gross energy intake.
650 4 _aMetano
_9116974
650 4 _aProducción
_94624
650 4 _aBovinos
_96174
650 4 _aPasturas
_922902
650 4 _aForrajes
_910403
650 4 _aDigestion
_9114927
650 4 _aAlimentación de los Animales
_92241
650 4 _aEficacia
_912357
650 4 _aSeparatas
_9120950
773 0 _tCanadian Journal of Animal Science
_gv. 76 n. 3 (1997)
_w223984
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