Supplementation of native grass hay with cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) hay, wilted leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) forage, wilted tagasaste (Chamaecytisus palmensis) forage or a wheat middling for young Friesian X Zebu (Boran) crossbred steers

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cg.issn0789-600Xen
cg.journalAgricultural Science in Finlanden
cg.subject.ilriFORAGESen
cg.subject.ilriFEEDSen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL FEEDINGen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
dc.contributor.authorVarvikko, T.en
dc.contributor.authorKhalili, H.en
dc.contributor.authorCrosse, S.en
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-06T06:59:53Zen
dc.date.available2013-05-06T06:59:53Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/28086
dc.titleSupplementation of native grass hay with cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) hay, wilted leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) forage, wilted tagasaste (Chamaecytisus palmensis) forage or a wheat middling for young Friesian X Zebu (Boran) crossbred steersen
dcterms.abstractAn experiment was conducted with Friesian X Zebu (Boran) crossbred growing steers to compare an agro-industrial by-product, wheat middling cowpea hay, and wilted forages of leucaena and tagasaste as cattle feed. These feeds were fed daily to supplement the basal diet of native hay. A mineral supplement containing bone meal and common salt was also fed daily. The animals were group-fed but towards the end of the experiment, were housed individually in feeding pens to estimate the feed intake and digestibilities of the diets. The animals consumed all the supplements except for tagasaste forage. The mean daily total dry matter intake during the individual feeding ranged from 4.9-5.5 kg. The descending order of diets in digestible crude protein intake was wheat, leucaena, vigna, tagasaste and native hay. In the daily weight gains the feeds were ranked in descending order of wheat, leucaena, vigna, native hay and tagasaste. The daily gain on wheat middlings was higher than on any other diet. Poor palatability may be a major problem in feeding tagasaste to growing cattle.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAgricultural Science in Finland;1:247-254en
dcterms.extentp. 247-254en
dcterms.issued1992
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectvigna unguiculataen
dcterms.subjectleucaena leucocephalaen
dcterms.subjectchamaecytisus palmensisen
dcterms.subjectsupplementary feedingen
dcterms.subjecthayen
dcterms.subjectfeed cropsen
dcterms.subjectfeed concentratesen
dcterms.subjectsteersen
dcterms.subjectwheatsen
dcterms.subjectagroindustrial byproductsen
dcterms.subjectcrossbredsen
dcterms.subjectzebu cattleen
dcterms.subjectfriesian cattleen
dcterms.subjectweight gainen
dcterms.subjectchemical analysisen
dcterms.subjectdigestibilityen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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