![]() The main function of ammonisation is to generate ammonolysis reaction using ammonia and straw, by damaging the ester bonds between lignin and polysaccharide, so that it can contact with digestive enzymes more easily, with an improvement in digestibility of straw. The cellulose part of the straw can be digested and utilised by ruminant animals, while the lignin part cannot be digested. It is made more easily digestible by rumen microorganisms, which increases the digestibility of forage. Adding liquid ammonia, urea, or ammonium bicarbonate as ammonia sources result in the straw lignin being completely degraded, while the nutrients are enhanced. "Straw ammoniation is a process by which low-value forage such as corn stalks, rice straw, wheat straw, and straw of other crops is ammoniated. The process described below explains how the nutritive value of straw can be enhanced. While I agree that straw is generally considered a nutritionless byproduct, it is in fact used for silage in some parts of the world. Cattle would eventually starve to death on a diet of straight ensiled straw. Straw has almost no nutritive value and not enough moisture to ferment when ensiled (and even if it did you would just have straw silage which still contains almost no nutrition). ![]() I never tried it in 15 but I'll take your word for it.
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