Nutritive value of Desmodium rensonii
2003
Paduano, D.C. Jr (Xavier Univ., Cagayan de Oro City (Philippines))
Desmodium rensonii (now D. cinerea) has been tagged as the "alfalfa of the tropics" because of its high protein content. It has been used for years at the Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center (MBRLC), Bansalan, Davao del Sur [Philippines] as fodder for goats, but there had been no literature on its nutrient composition. Thus, the author determined the nutritive/feeding value of D. rensonii in the project "The nutritive and feeding value of rensonii as livestock feed", so as to maximize the species' utilization in livestock production. Findings showed that based on proximate, detergent fiber, and mineral content analyses, the nutrient composition of D. rensonii was comparable with that of alfalfa. The in situ digestibility of DM and CP of D. rensonii at different incubation periods were tabulated. Both DM and CP of rensonii had high disappearance within 24 hours of rumen incubation at 72-hour incubation, DM disappearance was 89.13%, while CP was more likely to be completely digested with 97.10% disappearance. The CP content and digestibility of DM and CP of D. rensonii suggested that it can be a good protein supplement for ruminants
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