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Comparative Feeding Value of Oat-Pea Forages Ensiled at Two Stages of Maturity^1,2,

Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station, Palmer

ABSTRACT

Oat-pea forages were ensiled directly from the field at either early-head or late-milk stages of oat maturity during 1963, 1964, and 1965. Each year the silages were fed to two groups of five lactating dairy cows in a switchback design based on three 28- to 35-day periods. Ad lib. silage intake, significantly greater for early-cut silage on an as-fed basis (p < 1%), was not significantly different for the two silages on a dry matter basis. Although daily FCM was significantly greater on the early-cut silage during the 1964–65 feeding trial (p < 5%), differences were never greater than 0.3 kg/cow/day during any one of the three trials. Live weight changes were more favorable for late-cut silage during the first and third feeding trials and for early-cut silage during the second. Analytical values, which were more propitious for early-cut silage, were not reflected unequivocally in the feeding trials.

¹ Research supported in part by Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

² Data are from a project contributing to North Central Regional Project NC-63, Biochemistry of Forage Utilization.