Graduate Student Corn petition--CSAS.

This article presents abstracts of various papers related to animal science, that were presented during the symposium held on July 26, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio, which was organized by the American Dairy Science Association, the American Society of Animal Science and the Canadian Society of Animal Science. One of the papers discussed is "Validation of a New Equation Predicting Digestible Energy of Forage for Sheep," by M. Vachon, J.F. Bernier and others. The aim of this project was to compare the precision of a new multi-component empirical model to predict digestible energy of forages fed to sheep, with the equation actually used in Quebec for grasses. Comparisons were made in two separate trials with 48 lactating and 46 pregnant ewes in a 2x2 factorial arrangement. Another paper presented is "True Phosphorus Digestibility and the Endogenous Phosphorus Losses Associated With Barley for Pigs," by A.M. Hawkins, C.M. Nyachoti and others. The nutritional evaluation of field peas for swine has primarily focused on its energy and protein value. However, the bio-availability of phosphorus in peas for pigs has only been examined to a limited extent.