Nutritive value of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) seeds, fodder, and silage
1990
Akbar, M.A. | Gupta, P.C. (Haryana Agricultural Univ., Hisar (India). Department of Animal Nutrition)
Four feeding experiments were conducted at the Haryana Agricultural University in Hisar, India to find out the nutritive value of faba bean (Vicia faba) seed meal, green fodder, and silage for sheep and cattle. Faba bean seed meal can be fed to ruminants as protein supplement without any adverse effect, but green faba bean as sole source of feed was not suitable. An effective utilization of green faba bean in ruminants could be achieved either by ensiling or by mixing it with other forage like oat. Feeding of green faba bean oat mixture at 2:1 ratio gave optimum growth in lambs
Show more [+] Less [-]AGROVOC Keywords
Bibliographic information
This bibliographic record has been provided by International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas