Wilted or cassava meal added elephant-grass silage. Nutritive value

Authors

  • Evaldo Ferrari Júnior Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento do Estado de São Paulo, Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios, Instituto de Zootecnia, Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Forragicultura e Pastagens, Nova Odessa, SP
  • Wagner Lavezzo Universidade Estadual Paulista, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Departamento de Nutrição e Melhoramento Animal, Botucatu, SP

Keywords:

cassava meal, digestibility, elephant grass, intake, silage

Abstract

Digestibility essays were carried out at UNESP-Botucatu in order to study the effects of wilting (A) and of the addition of different rates of cassava meal (B=0; C=2; D=4; E=8 and F=12%) to elephant grass silage. Experimental responses evaluated were: intake per unit of metabolic weight, digestibility coeficients, nutritive value and N balance. It was used a complete randomized block design with four replications. There was no significant difference (P>0.05) between wilting cassava meal rates for intake, digestibility coeficient, crude protein, crude fiber, organic matter, neutral detergent fiber, acid detergent fiber, hemicellulose and nutritive value. There was, however, a significant difference (P<0.05) for the digestibility coeficient of nitrogen free extract in treatments D, E and F and for N balance in treatments B, D, E and F. The addition of cassava meal during the silage making process of Efephant grass did not improve dry matter intake and digestibility in comparison with the wilted grass.

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Published

2013-12-02

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Section

FORAGE CROPS AND PASTURES

How to Cite

Wilted or cassava meal added elephant-grass silage. Nutritive value. (2013). Bulletin of Animal Husbandry, 58(2), 125-134. http://bia.iz.sp.gov.br/index.php/bia/article/view/1377

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