Browsing by Author "Wickramasinghe, Janaka"

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Early Stepdown Weaning of Dairy Calves with Glutamine and Branched-Chain Amino Acid Supplementations

Wickramasinghe, Janaka; Kaya, Can Ayhan; Beitz, Donald; Appuhamy, Ranga (Mdpi, 2022)

Simple Summary We demonstrated previously that supplementation of glutamine (Gln) at 2.0% of dry matter intake (DMI) increased the rate at which dairy calves achieved >= 1.0 kg/d starter feed intake (SFI) during weaning. ...
Evaluating ruminal and small intestinal morphology and microbiota composition of calves fed a macleaya cordata extract preparation

Wickramasinghe, Janaka; Anderson, Chiron J.; Kaya, Can Ayhan; Gorden, Patrick J.; Ribeiro, Flavio Rodrigues Borges; Dohms, Juliane; Rigert, Sydney; Schmitz-Esser, Stephan; Appuhamy, Ranga (MDPI, 2023)

The objective was to determine the impact of feeding MCE on ruminal and intestinal morphology and microbiota composition of calves. A total of 10 male and 10 female crossbred (dairy × beef) calves (6 d of age) were ...