Effects of easy soluble carbohydrate and bacterial inoculant supplementations on silage quality of frosted maize

ABSTRACT. The present experiments were conducted to assess the effects of barley, Lactobacillus bacteria and lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and enzyme mixture supplementations on chemical composition and some quality parameters of naturally frosted maize silage. The treatments were as follows; T1: Control (no supplementation, C); T2: barley 20 g kg-1, B20; T3: barley 40 g kg-1, B40; T4: 1.5 g ton-1, a mixture of LAB; and T5: 2 g ton1, a mixture LAB+enzyme, LEN. Barley supplementation to frosted maize increased dry matter (DM) (p