Silagem de grãos úmidos de milho na alimentação de bovinos: revisão

Abstract

There have constantly been sought better results in animal performance, and nutrition is one of the key points in this improvement. The grain processing is an alternative to increase the digestibility of dry matter and thus improve feed conversion. The aim of this review is to approach the practical preparation and use of silage moisture corn in cattle feed. The production of silage moisture corn has economic advantage over dry corn grain, especially in the process of completion of harvesting and storage of the raw material. To evaluate ruminal degradability of dry matter, one realizes that the measure that improves processing of corn grain increases the effective degradability of dry matter. However, when assessing the performance of calves, heifers and dairy cows supplemented with the same amounts of damp silage and ground corn grain on dry matter basis, no significant differences appeared. Silage moisture corn can replace the dry ground corn grain in the diet of cattle.