Ruminal degradability corn hybrids at diferent maturity stages and silage mechanical processing
Keywords:
black layer, flint and dent texture, macro bag, mechanical processingAbstract
The whole corn plant silage practice and the seek for materials of better quality results in various genotypes with specific characteristics wich when it is combined with mechanical processing, becomes an important research topic. The objective of this study was the evaluation of two mechanical processing at two different maturity ages of flint and dent corn hybrids on ruminal degradability of: dry matter (DM), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), crude protein (CP), and starch by the technique of "in situ micro bag". It were used three ruminal cannulated Holstein cows with 520kg of mean live weight. The experiment was carried out in a completely randomized design, using repeated mesurementst over time. The mechanical processing, maturity stages and incubation time were significant (P<0.05) for all the analyzed variables. There was an interaction among hybrid*time for CP. The interaction maturity stages*time of incubation was significant for DM, NDF, CP with effect of hybrid corn for starch. Also, the interaction among hybrid*mechanical processing*incubation time for DM and NDF and incubation time*maturity stages*mechanical processing for DM were significant. The greatest effective degradability (ED) was for the dent hybrid processed harvest at point 1 and it wasn€™t significant statistically different from the others processed treatments, but 36% greater than the not processed treatments. Regarding CP and NDF the best results were for the mechanical processed treatments, 10% more efficient for effective CP degradability, with 70% more for the dent hybrid processed in point 1 and 46% in point 2 with a passage rate of 2% h-1, for NDF. The effective degradability of starch was increased up to 14% in the passage rate of 2% for the flint hybrid in point 1 and 12% for point 2. For the dent hybrid, the best increases were in the rates of 5 and 8% h-1, reaching 13% in point 1. It is possible to infer that the lower degradability found in this study were for the flint hybrid harvest in the black layer maturity stage. So, the mechanical processing is recommended to enable the increase of the ED evaluated in this study becoming possible use to flint and dent hybrids harvested in the black layer maturity stage.
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