Persistency of methane mitigation by dietary nitrate supplementation in dairy cows

van Zijderveld, S.M.; Gerrits, W.J.J.; Dijkstra, J.; Newbold, J.R.; B. A. Hulshof, R.; Perdok, H.B.

doi:10.3168/jds.2011-4236

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Persistency of methane mitigation by dietary nitrate supplementation in dairy cows

Published in Journal of Dairy Science • Jul 26, 2011

Authors:

S.M. van Zijderveld

W.J.J. Gerrits

J. Dijkstra

Abstract

Feeding nitrate to dairy cows may lower ruminal methane production by competing for reducing equivalents with methanogenesis. Twenty lactating Holstein-Friesian dairy cows (33.2±6.0 kg of milk/d; 104±58 d in milk at the start of the experiment) were fed a total mixed ration (corn silage-based; forag...

Subject

Dry matter

Nitrate

Animal science

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