PRODUCTIVITY OF A SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEM UNDER INTENSIVE MIXED SPECIES GRAZING BY CATTLE AND SHEEP

Autor: Leonor Yalid Manriquez-Mendoza, Silvia López-Ortiz, Carlos Olguín-Palacios, Ponciano Pérez-Hernández, Pablo Díaz-Rivera, Zenón Gerardo López-Tecpoyotl
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, Vol 13, Iss 3 (2011)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1870-0462
Popis: The presence of forage trees in pastures enhances yield and nutritional quality of forage available for animal feeding. We assessed forage yield and nutritional quality, and weight gain of cattle and sheep foraging in a silvopastoral system containing Guazuma ulmifolia Lam. and the grasses Digitaria eriantha Stent (cv. Pangola), Brachiaria brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf (cv. Insurgentes) and Megathyrsus maximus (Jacq.) B.K. Simon & S.W.L. Jacobs (cv. Tanzania), during three seasons (windy, dry and rainy) in two grazing treatments: 1) mixed species grazing by four to five Criollo Lechero Tropical heifers and six female Pelibuey lambs, and 2) simple species grazing by 12 female Pelibuey lambs. Weight gain was greater (P
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