Short-Term Intake and "in sacco" Degradability of Mixtures of Two Tropical Legumes

• Main Authors: Dung, DD., Omokanye, AT., Lamidi, OS.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux 2000-01-01
• Series: Tropicultura
• Subjects: Intake; Degradability; Arachis hypogaea; Adenodolichos paniculatus; Tropical; Nigeria
• Online Access: http://www.tropicultura.org/text/v18n4/164.pdf

Two experiments were conducted using four mixtures of Arachis hypogaea and Adenodolichos paniculatus in the ratios 100 : 0, 90 : 10, 80 : 20 and 70 : 30. In the first study, sheep were subjected to short-term intake trials for a period of three days. In the second study, in sacco dry matter (DM) degradability during 48h of the four mixtures was determined. Although no significant (P> 0.05) differences among treatments were observed, short-term intake tended to increase with increasing inclusion level of A. paniculatus, which was accompanied by a decrease in % refusais. In sacco DM degradation decreased significantly (P <0.05) and linearly with higher levels of A. paniculatus.