Quality of sorghum silage with leucaena
| Autor: | Marcelo Marcos da Silva, Vicente Ribeiro Rocha Júnior, Marielly Maria Almeida Moura, Renê Ferreira Costa, Weudes Rodrigues Andrade, Luiz Henrique Tolentino Santos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences, Volume: 41, Article number: e36493, Published: 07 JAN 2019 Acta Scientiarum: Animal Sciences, Vol 41, Iss 1, Pp e36493-e36493 (2018) Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences; Vol 41 (2019): Publicação Contínua; e36493 Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences; v. 41 (2019): Publicação Contínua; e36493 Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM) instacron:UEM |
| ISSN: | 1807-8672 1806-2636 |
| Popis: | This study evaluated the effect of increasing levels of leucaena forage in sorghum: forage. In addition to pure sorghum, it was evaluated different levels of inclusion of leucaena (15, 30 and 50%) at the time of ensiling. Forage was ensiled in PVC tubes (100 mm diameter, 500 mm length) under the density of 500 – 600 kg m-3, a total of 20 silos were prepared, which were opened 35 days after ensiling. There was no effect (p > 0.05) of leucaena inclusion levels for pH, water activity (Aw) and total ammonia nitrogen (total NH3-N). There was an increasing linear effect (p < 0.05) for the content of dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP) and lignin that increased from 33.47 to 34.75%, 7.82 to 16.05% and from 7.29 to 9.93%, at the levels from 0 to 50% inclusion of leucaena, respectively. There was a decreasing linear effect (p < 0.05) for neutral detergent fiber corrected for ash and protein (NDFcp) and hemicellulose, which reduced from 56.65 to 48.37% and from 24.07 to 17.67% at the levels of 0 and 50% inclusion, respectively. For the ash content, there was a quadratic effect (p < 0.05), with a maximum at 8.3% with 8.9% inclusion of leucaena. The inclusion of up to 50% leucaena into sorghum silage is recommended, because, in addition to maintaining the fermentation quality, it also improved nutritional quality of sorghum silage. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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