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Sweet sorghum and its bagasse ensiled with urea and molasses can be used
as alternatives for maize silage in semi-arid areas from in situ
and gas production evaluations
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Shahabodin Zafari Naeini1, Ebrahim
Rowghani*2, Nima Khodambashi Emami3, Ali-Reza
Bayat4 and Ebrahim Abolfathi2 |
1Department of Animal Science, College of
Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
2Department of Animal Science, College of
Agriculture, Darab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Darab, Iran; 3Department
of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of
Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran; 4Nutritional Physiology, Green
Technology, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Jokioinen,
FI-31600, Finland
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Abstract |
In situ degradability and gas production (GP) parameters of
sweet sorghum and sweet sorghum bagasse silages compared with maize
silage were determined in mini silos in order to compare the nutritional
value of ensiled sweet sorghum and its bagasse with maize silage.
Experimental treatments were 1) maize silages (MS) as control, 2) sweet
sorghum silage (SS) and 3) sweet sorghum bagasse silage (BS) both
supplemented with urea or molasses (10 and 50 g/kg dry matter (DM)
basis, respectively). Triplicate silage samples were prepared for each
treatment in laboratory silos for 90 days. The in situ
degradability of DM and crude protein (CP) of fresh and 90-d ensiled
forages were measured using three none lactating dairy cows fitted with
rumen cannulae over 96 h. In vitro gas production was measured
for 96 h and organic matter digestibility (OMD), metabolisable energy
(ME) and net energy for lactation (NEl) were estimated based
on gas production parameters. Fresh sorghum and its bagasse had lower
(P<0.01) ME, NEl and OMD than fresh maize. Fresh sorghum and bagasse had
greater (P<0.05) immediately soluble fraction (a) of DM than
fresh maize but for slowly degradable fraction (b) of DM opposite
trend (P<0.01) was observed. The a fraction of CP in situ
degradability of maize plant was greater than fresh sorghum and bagasse
(P<0.01). Adding urea plus molasses increased (P<0.05) in situ
a fraction of DM and CP and effective rumen degradability of DM and
CP (P<0.01) in addition to ME and in vitro OMD for SS and BS
which were rather comparable with MS. It seems that combination of urea
and molasses as silage additives improves the nutritional quality of
sweet sorghum and bagasse silages.
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Keywords:
Maize, sweet sorghum,
sweet sorghum bagasse, silage, in situ degradability, gas
production |
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To cite this article:
Naeini SZ, E Rowghani, NK
Emami, AR Bayat, E
Abolfathi, 2016.
Sweet sorghum and its
bagasse ensiled with urea and molasses can be used as alternatives for
maize silage in semi-arid areas from in situ and gas production
evaluations.
Res.
Opin. Anim. Vet. Sci., 6(8): 248-255. |
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