Using rumen modifiers in dairy cow diets can improve feed efficiency, gut health and lower rumen methane production. In this article various rumen modifiers are discussed. Increasing starch in dairy cow diet provides energy for milk production, increases the rumen-degraded starch supply to ruminal microbiota and reduces the risk of subacute ruminal acidosis. However, this process lowers the efficiency of microbial protein synthesis, neutral detergent fibre degradability, and milk fat percenta

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