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- Wheat straw (WS) and triticale straw (TS) were treated with sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and radiation to enhance their nutritional value, focusing on chemical composition and rumen degradation rates.
- NaOH treatment did not change the straws' chemical makeup, but radiation significantly decreased crude fiber levels and increased nitrogen-free extractives and certain glucose polymers.
- The treatments individually improved the straw's degradability in the rumen, yet their combined effects on dry matter and crude fiber degradation were inconclusive, showing varying dynamics in rumen disappearance between the two types of straw.
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Wheat straw (WS) and triticale straw (TS) were treated with 2- and 4%-NaOH and/or 300- and 600-kGy radiation doses (accelerated electrons) for improvement of the nutritional value of these feeds. Beside the chemical composition of straws, the nylon bag rumen disappearance of dry matter and crude fibre was estimated. NaOH did not influence the chemical composition of straws, while irradiation significantly reduced the level of crude fibre (CF), neutral detergent fibre (NDF) and acid detergent fibre (ADF) proportionally to the dose. The level of nitrogen free extractives (NFE) and alpha-linked glucose polymers pronouncedly increased in the radiated straws. NaOH treatment raised potential rumen degradability of DM and irradiation did so in the case of potential as well as effective degradability. It was not able to prove the summarized influence of both treatments on DM and CF rumen degradability of the straws. The dynamics of the rumen disappearance of DM was different in the straws.
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