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- Title
Evaluación in vitro del ensilaje de girasol (Helianthus annuus L.) solo y combinado con ensilaje de maíz.
- Authors
Aragadvay-Yungán, Ramón Gonzalo; Rayas Amor, Adolfo Armando; Heredia-Nava, Darwin; Estrada-Flores, Julieta Gertrudis; Martínez-Castañeda, Francisco Ernesto; Arriaga-Jordán, Carlos Manuel
- Abstract
Sunflower silage (SS) is being promoted as an efficient forage for feeding dairy cattle in the face of shortages of irrigation and erratic rainfall. The objective was to compare, through the in vitro gas production technique, the kinetics of ruminal fermentation of SS and its mixtures with maize silage (MzS) to know its nutr itional characteristics before its inclusion in feeding strategies. Five combinations of SS with MzS were assessed (MzS%: SS%); T1) 100:0, T2) 75:25, T3) 50:50, T4) 25:75 y T5) 0:100. Combining MzS with 25% SS decreased neutral detergent fiber and acid detergent fiber contents (P<0.05), which resulted in a digestibility of dry mather, organic matter, neutral detergent fiber and metabolizable energy similar to MzS (P>0.05), and with a CP content not statistically higher than MzS. The MzS had the highest total gas production (GP) but at a lower fermentation rate (P<0.05) when compared to T2 that had a better fermentation rate of 0.0530%/h, with Lag time of 3.4 h. Before ensiling, sunflower supplies 31.8% more CP, 11.8% less metabolizable energy and 11.9% less in vitro digestibility of organic matter than maize plant. Compared to T1, the T2 supplied 1.6% more crude protein, 2% less metabolizable energy and 4.4% less of in vitro digestibility of organic matter. Therefore it is concluded that sunflower silage could be an alternative to substitute up to 25% of maize silage as the crude protein and metabolizable energy supply are similar to maize silage.
- Publication
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Pecuarias, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 3, p315
- ISSN
2007-1124
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22319/rmcp.v6i3.4094