The Effect of a Silage Inoculant on Silage Quality, Aerobic Stability, and Meat Production on Farm Scale
Table 6
The effect of the treatment with the commercial product BSM on silage DM, energy intake, and feed conversion rate.
Parameter
Unit
Treatment
SE
Control
BSM
Silage DM intake
kg DM/animal/day
0.065
0.065
Compound feed DM intake
0.000
0.000
Total DM intake1
0.066
0.065
Total metabolizable energy (ME) intake
MJ/animal/day
0.799
*
Feed conversion rate
MJ of ME/kg gain
1.062
0.298
*denotes statistical significance at level 0.05. 11 kg/animal/day of barley straw (88% of DM, 3.9 MJ ME/kg DM) was included in the diet for both treatments.