The feeding value of cured Parkia filicoidea welw. Leaves with cassava peels to the goat
✍ Scribed by A.A. Adeloye; B. Awosanya; K. Joseph; S. Olawoye
- Book ID
- 103982325
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 264 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0960-8524
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✦ Synopsis
The influence of supplementary inclusion of Parkia filicoidea Welw. hay in a cassva-peel diet for goats was evaluated by a digestibifity study. Eighteen Sokoto red goats, 6"0-7"5 kg, were involved, There were six diets comprising unsupplemented cassava peels; 25, 50 and 75% replacements with Parkia hay; whole Parkia hay; and the control. The control diet was of 60% Andropogon gayanus and 40% yellow maize and soybean meal mixed in a 1"5.: 1 ratio.
Dry matter (DM) intake (g/head per day) was better (P< O'05) with whole Parkia hay (153+34"5) than with the cassava peels (137+ 12.9). Nevertheless, DM intakes were far better (> 200 g/head per day) on the supplemented diets. Acceptabilities were enhanced at (cassava peel/Parkia hay) 25/75 and 50/50 mixtures.
DM digestibilities were higher on unsupplemented cassava peels, 25 and 50% replacements than with Parkia hay. Nutrient digestibilities were higher (P < (~05) with the 50% replacement diet, except for crude fibre and total ash.
The availabifity of the cassava peel and Parkia hay at little or no cost and the digestibility of the 50/50 combination as against that of the conventional (control) diet would make the 50/50 combination of the plant products an acceptable dry-season feed and a suitably cheap feed in subsistence goat-production.