Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Award Date
1960
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department / School
Animal Science
Abstract
Estimating the feeding value of forage grasses is one problem that has confronted nearly every livestock nutritionist. The conventional system of proximate analysis as it was developed in weends. Germany over 100 years ago has been repeatedly criticized because the products are variable for cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. The crude fiber classification commonly suggests the fibrous, poorly digested and relatively unavailable portion of a feed. The ability of the ruminant animal to digest cellulose in the crude fiver fraction was not considered in the weende system by classifying it in the unavailable portion of forages/ The nitrogen free extract, commonly referred to as NF.E., suggests the easily digestible carbohydrates. Digestion trials, however, have shown that the coefficient of digestibility of the crude fiber is frequently equal or higher than the N.F.S this may be accounted for, impart, by the presence of lignin, a relatively indigestible substance, which is grouped with the N.F.S carbohydrates by this usual method of analysis. It is the purpose of this study to determine the in vitro digestibility of holocellulose as a complete fraction. This necessitated development of an analysis procedure that prevented the logs of the hemi-celluloses from the remaining undigested portion of a forage sample.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Feeds
Forage
Description
Includes bibliographical references
Format
application/pdf
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Thurston, Marion M., "The Digestibility of Holocellulose Prepared from Various Forages with Special Emphasis on the Comparative Digestibility of the Cellulose Portion and the Digestibility of the Entire Holocellulose Fraction" (1960). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3114.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/3114