 | Abstract 481Milk production on Kikuyu grass pasture under strip grazing.Abrahao,-JJ-dos-S Estacao Experimental de Lages, Lages, SC, Brazil. ComunicadoTecnico,-Empresa-Catarinense-de-Pesquisa-Agropecu ria. 1983, No.59, 6pp.; 5 ref. In a field trial in 1981 at Lages, 5 Flamenga cows with a mean initial liveweight of 514 kg and similar lactation history were rotationally grazed daily on strips of a pasture containing 58% Kikuyu grass for 91 days. Total milk production ranged from 912 to 1158 kg and liveweight gains from 29 to 40 kg/cow. In vitro OM digestibility and CP content ranged from 50.0 to 70.1% and 9.2 to 17.2%, resp., during the grazing period. This abstract relates to the following species: |