Nutritional quality, digestibility and growth performance of sheep fed fodder obtained from early-or-late-maturing groundnuts cultivars
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and developing country institute | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | University for Development Studies | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Livestock Research Institute | en |
| cg.contributor.crp | Maize | |
| cg.contributor.donor | United States Agency for International Development | en |
| cg.coverage.country | Ghana | |
| cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2 | GH | |
| cg.coverage.region | Africa | |
| cg.coverage.region | Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| cg.coverage.region | Western Africa | |
| cg.howPublished | Formally Published | en |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.47881/295.967x | en |
| cg.identifier.iitatheme | SOCIAL SCIENCE & AGRICUSINESS | en |
| cg.issn | 2343-6727 | en |
| cg.issue | 3 | en |
| cg.journal | Ghana Journal of Science, Technology and Development | en |
| cg.reviewStatus | Peer Review | en |
| cg.subject.actionArea | Resilient Agrifood Systems | |
| cg.subject.iita | FARMING SYSTEMS | en |
| cg.subject.iita | LIVELIHOODS | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | ANIMAL FEEDING | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | CROP-LIVESTOCK | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | CROPS | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | FARMING SYSTEMS | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | FEEDS | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | FORAGES | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | SHEEP | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | SMALL RUMINANTS | en |
| cg.subject.impactArea | Environmental health and biodiversity | |
| cg.subject.impactArea | Gender equality, youth and social inclusion | |
| cg.subject.impactArea | Nutrition, health and food security | |
| cg.subject.sdg | SDG 1 - No poverty | en |
| cg.subject.sdg | SDG 2 - Zero hunger | en |
| cg.subject.sdg | SDG 11 - Sustainable cities and communities | en |
| cg.volume | 7 | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Asare-Agyapong, E. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Abdul Rahman, Nurudeen | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Addah, W. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Ayantunde, Augustine A. | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-04T07:57:08Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2022-04-04T07:57:08Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119235 | |
| dc.title | Nutritional quality, digestibility and growth performance of sheep fed fodder obtained from early-or-late-maturing groundnuts cultivars | en |
| dcterms.abstract | This study determined the digestibility and growth performance of sheep fed groundnut fodder obtained from early- or late-maturing cultivars. Early-maturing cultivars (90 days) included Chinese, Yenyawoso and Sumnut 23 whereas late-maturing cultivars (110 to 120 days) were Sumnut 22, Azivivi and Manipinta. Each variety was cultivated on 4 replicated fields. At maturity, all the cultivars were harvested. The pods were separated from the haulms (leaves and twigs) and equal portions of the haulms were composited into early- or late-maturing cultivars. Each of the composited haulms was then dried and chopped to a theoretical length of 3–4 cm before being used to formulate two diets that were fed to twenty-two West African Dwarf sheep (14.75±2.52 kg) in a 45-d feeding trial. Two ruminally-cannulated Nungua Black Head sheep were used to determine the digestion kinetics of the fodder in an in situ digestibility experiment whereas in vitro digestibility of the fodder at 48 h was also assessed. The early-maturing cultivars had higher concentrations of acid detergent fibre (ADF; P = 0.01) and acid detergent lignin (ADL; P = 0.02) but lower (P = 0.02) concentration of dry matter (92.4 vs. 93.3%) compared to the late-maturing cultivars. The concentration of silica differed between the two cultivars by 44%, as it tended (P = 0.08) to be higher in the late-maturing compared to the early- maturing cultivars (2.6 vs. 1.8%). The higher concentrations of ADF and ADL in the early-maturing cultivars reduced (P = 0.03) the extent of digestion of this fodder compared to the late-maturing cultivars (43.9 vs. 52.1% DM). Growth performance of sheep fed the groundnut fodder did not differ statistically (P ≥ 0.69). This study concludes that late-maturing cultivars produced more DM and had less recalcitrant fibre constituents (ADF and ADL) than early-maturing cultivars. Improvements in the extent of digestion of the late-maturing groundnut cultivars did not reflect in the growth performance of sheep fed the late-maturing groundnut fodder. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.audience | Scientists | en |
| dcterms.available | 2021-10-21 | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Asare-Agyapong, E., Abdul Rahman, N., Addah, W. and Ayantunde, A.A. 2021. Nutritional quality, digestibility and growth performance of sheep fed fodder obtained from early-or-late-maturing groundnuts cultivars. Ghana Journal of Science. Technology and Development 7(3):1-10. | en |
| dcterms.extent | 1-10 | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2021-10-15 | en |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 | |
| dcterms.publisher | University for Development Studies Library | en |
| dcterms.subject | early maturation | en |
| dcterms.subject | stems | en |
| dcterms.subject | groundnuts | en |
| dcterms.subject | digestibility | en |
| dcterms.subject | small ruminants | en |
| dcterms.subject | sheep | en |
| dcterms.subject | feeds | en |
| dcterms.subject | forage | en |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article |
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