An Inrestigation on Nutritive value of Camelthorn Plants and its Role in Ruminants Nutrition.Phase 1:Potential of ensiling Alhagi and comparing its nutritive value with Alhagi hay and Alfalfa hay.
2010
Bashtini , Jafar | Fazaeli ,H | Faysi , R
This experiment was conducted to determine the nutritve value of dried and ensailed form of Camelthorn plant spp (Alhagi). In a completely randomized experiment, with 7 treatments and 4 replications, 7 diets including: 1) ensiled Camelthorn plant without Molasses, 2) ensiled Camelthorn plant with %5 Molasses, 3) ensiled Camelthorn plant with %10 Molasses, 4) dried Camelthorn plant without Molasses, 5) dried Camelthorn plant mixed with %5 Molasses, 6) dried Camelthorn plant mixed with %10 Molasses and 7) alfalfa hay, were tested in which 28 Baluchi mature male sheep with average live weight of 35.4± 4.6kg were used. The voluntary feed intake, relative intake and in vivo digestibility were determined. Results showed that alfalfa hay had the highest but treatment 1 had the lowest amount of voluntary feed inatke and realtive intake (p0.05). However treatments 3, 4, 5 and 6 were ranked at secont level after alfalfa and treatments 1 and 2 at third levels (p0.05). Addition of molasses at 10% increased (p0.05) the intake of Alhagi silage but no differences were obtained with addition of molasse to dried Alhagi forage. Regarding the total digestible nutrients (TDN), it was the highest for alfalfal but the lowest for treatment 1 (p0.05), although no significant difference was obtained between treatments 1 and 2. The treatments contained dry Alhagi forage and silge contained 10% molasses were ranked in a similar level after alfalfa hay but the other treatments ranked at third level (p0.05). It may be considered that Alhagi forage could be used more efficiently as hay than that of the silage by sheep.
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