Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) as fresh forage or silage, with or without urea, in diets for ruminants. Apparent digestibility

Authors

  • Carlos de Sousa Lucci Universidade de Santo Amaro, São Paulo, SP
  • Edison Valvasori Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento do Estado de São Paulo, Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios, Instituto de Zootecnia, Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Nutrição Animal e Pastagem, Nova Odessa, SP
  • Ricardo Lopes Universidade de Santo Amaro, São Paulo, SP
  • Adriana Capezzuto Universidade de Santo Amaro, São Paulo, SP
  • Valter Fontolan Universidade de Santo Amaro, São Paulo, SP
  • Gilberto Buffarah Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento do Estado de São Paulo, Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios, Instituto de Zootecnia, Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Nutrição Animal e Pastagem, Nova Odessa, SP

Keywords:

Apparent digestibility, sugar cane, urea, silage

Abstract

Twenty four lambs were employed to evaluate digestibility of diets with sugar cane as the only roughage. in a factorial 2 x 3 disposition of treatments : sugar cane in natura or as silage, with 0.0%, 0.5% and 1.0% of urea. It was adopted a completely randonmized design, and digestion trial runned in metabolic cages. After a pre-experimental period of 21 days , faeces, feed and refuged were collected for 5 consecutive days, to analize dry matter, crude protein, crude fiber, non nitrogen extratives, eter extract, and neutral detergent fiber. Results of digestibility were better for sugar cane €œin natura€ than for silage, with especifically higher digestion coefficents (p<0.01) for dry matter and non nitrogen extractives . Crescent urea levels also showed higher dry matter and non nitrogen extractives digestibility results (p<0.05) when apllyed to sugar cane in natura than to sugar cane silage.

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Published

2013-11-29

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GENETIC

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Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) as fresh forage or silage, with or without urea, in diets for ruminants. Apparent digestibility. (2013). Bulletin of Animal Husbandry, 60(1), 47-53. http://35.198.24.243/index.php/bia/article/view/1353

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