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Adoption and feeding of grass and legume hay in Honduras
2012
Reiber, Christoph | Peters, Michael | Hoffmann, Vivian | Schultze-Kraft, Rainer
Effect of supplementing tropical tannin-free and tanniniferous legumes to grass-fed sheep on the utility of their manure as nitrogen fertiliser
2009
Tiemann, Tassilo T. | Hincapié Carvajal, Belisario | Frossard, Emmanuel | Kreuzer, M. | Hess, H.D.
A pot experiment was conducted to assess the fertiliser value of faeces from sheep fed with a diet supplemented with legumes free of or containing condensed tannins. Ten animals received the same five diets in different experimental runs of a double Latin Square design, all consisting of a low quality tropical grass ration, supplemented with 450g/kg legumes. Legume treatments were either solely Vigna unguiculata (a tannin free herbaceous legume) or mixtures of V. unguiculata with either Calliandra calothyrsus or Flemingia macrophylla (both shrub legumes rich in condensed tannins) in ratios of 2:1 and 1:2. Faeces from animals receiving the same diets were pooled and applied at two levels (20 and 80 mg N/kg soil) to pots with seedlings from the cultivar Mulato II, a Brachiaria grass hybrid. An acidic infertile tropical soil was used. Aerial biomass yield and plant N content were evaluated. The results seem to indicate that the N fertiliser value of faeces from sheep receiving a diet supplemented with tanniniferous legumes is not substantially reduced compared to diets free of condensed tannins. However, the data also indicate that nitrogen was not the most limiting element in the soil used since mineral fertilisation without extra nitrogen was efficient, too.
Show more [+] Less [-]Relay cropping as an improved fallow practice in northern Thailand
2001
Prinz, K. (McKean Rehabilitation Center, P.O. Box 53 Chiang Mai 50000 (Thailand)) Ongprasert, S.
Adoption and impact of forage conservation technologies transferred with contrasting extension approaches: a current research project in Honduras and Nicaragua
2005
Hess, H.D. | Stuerm, CD | Tiemann, Tassilo T. | Lascano Aguilar, Carlos Eduardo | Kreuzer, M.
Effects of mixtures of tropical legumes with contrasting tannin contents as supplements to low-quality grass diets on ruminal fermentation in vitro
2005
Hess, H.D. | Stuerm, CD | Tiemann, Tassilo T. | Lascano Aguilar, Carlos Eduardo | Kreuzer, M.
