In sacco dry matter disappearance of herbage and maize meal from the rumen of lactating Dorper and Merino ewes supplemented with
Rumen fermentation was studied during three years in lactating Dorper and Merino ewes, supplemented daily with crude protein and/or energy via rumen fistulae on veld. Herbage, collected with oesophageally fistulated wethers, and maize meal were incubated in sacco in the…