Feeding of vegetable waste silage to lambs by replacing maize silage. Issue 1 (31st December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Das, Nani Gopal; Sultana, Nasrin; Amanullah, Sardar Muhammad; Jalil, Md. Abdul; Huque, Khan Shahidul
• Is Part Of: Journal of applied animal research. Volume 50:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 386
• Page End: 393
• Publication Date: 2022-12-31
• Subjects: Blood biochemical properties of lamb -- drum silo preparation -- fermentation characteristics of silage -- maize silage -- nutrient metabolism in lamb; Animal culture -- India -- Periodicals; Animal culture -- Tropics -- Periodicals; 636.005
• DOI: 10.1080/09712119.2022.2088539
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0971-2119

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The study examined the vegetable waste (VW) silage as feedstuff for lambs. Therefore, mechanically shredded VW was ensiled solely (T0 ) or by adding molasses (95:5 ratio; T1 ), or molasses and either wheat bran (T2 ) or rice polish (T3 ) or rice straw (T4 ) at an 85:5:10 ratio in 5 replicates for 45 days for evaluation. Then, the maize silage diet of two of the three groups of lambs (5 each) of 9.92 (±1.25) kg live weight (LW) was replaced with T4 silage at 50% and 100% on a fresh basis for 90 days and supplemented with a concentrated mixture at 1.5% of LWs. The significantly different pH (5.88, 5.21, 4.34, 4.33 and 4.23, respectively), lactic acid bacteria (not detected, 5.81, 6.51, 7.48 and 6.04 log10 cfu/g, respectively), and total volatile fatty acids (21.0, 29.2, 32.4, 36.0 and 32.0 mM/L, respectively) ( P < .01) indicated that T2, T3 and T4 were of good quality silage. The dry matter intake and gain of lambs fed 100% T4 silage were significantly ( P < .01) higher than others (2.30, 2.30 and 2.72% LW, respectively; 110, 128 and 141 g/d, respectively). It may be concluded that T4 silage may produce higher LW gain in lambs than maize silage.