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SUBMITTER: Gao S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7401567 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20200714 7
The objective of the present study was to evaluate the overall adaptations of liver and mammary tissue to a corn stover (CS) compared to a mixed forage (MF) diet in mid-lactation primiparous dairy cows. Twenty-four primiparous lactating Holstein cows were randomly allocated to 2 groups receiving either an alfalfa forage diet (MF, F:C = 60:40) with Chinese wildrye, alfalfa hay and corn silage as forage source or a corn stover forage diet (CS, F:C = 40:60). A subgroup of cows (n = 5/diet) was used ...[more]