TITLE:
Determining Nutritive Value of Cereal Crop Residues and Lentil (Lens esculanta) Straw for Ruminants
AUTHORS:
Eyob Haile, Mathew Gicheha, Francis K. Njonge, Goitom Asgedom
KEYWORDS:
Cereal Crop Residues, Chemical Composition, Degradability, Nutritive Value
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Animal Sciences,
Vol.7 No.1,
December
29,
2016
ABSTRACT: The chemical composition and in situ dry matter (DM) and organic
matter (OM) degradability of
seven different cereal crop residues were evaluated in this study. They
included the Sorghum stovers (SS) and
its threshed head residues (STH), millet stovers
(MS) and its threshed head residues (MTH), corn stover (CS), wheat (WS) and barley (BS) straws. A legume crop residue (lentil, Lens esculanta, straw; LS) was included for comparison with the
cereal crop residues. The CS was high (P crude protein (CP) and acid detergent lignin (ADL) and the lowest (P Neutral Detergent Fibre
(NDF) and acid detergent fibre (ADF) when compared to the amounts in SS
and MS. It was found out that LS had higher (P a, c fraction were highest (P the highest. The
chemical composition and degradability of different crop residues found in Eritrea indicate the potential the
residues have in supplementing grazing animals.