%0 Journal Article
%T Determining Nutritive Value of Cereal Crop Residues and Lentil (<i>Lens esculanta</i>) Straw for Ruminants
%A Eyob Haile
%A Mathew Gicheha
%A Francis K. Njonge
%A Goitom Asgedom
%J Open Journal of Animal Sciences
%P 19-29
%@ 2161-7627
%D 2017
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojas.2017.71003
%X The chemical composition and </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">in situ </span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">dry matter (DM) and organic
matter (OM)</span></span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"> <span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">degradability of
seven different cereal crop residues were evaluated in this study</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">. They
included the </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Sorghum stovers</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> (SS) and
its threshed head residues (STH), millet </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">stovers
(MS) and its threshed head residues (MTH), corn stover (CS), wheat (WS)</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> and barley (BS) straws. A legume crop residue (lentil, </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Lens esculanta</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">, straw; LS) was included for comparison with the
cereal crop residues. The CS was high (P &lt; 0.05) in </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">crude protein (CP) and acid detergent lignin (ADL) and the lowest (P &lt;
0.05) in</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> Neutral </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Detergent Fibre
(NDF) and acid detergent fibre (ADF) when compared t</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">o the amounts in SS
and MS. It was found out that LS had higher (P &lt; 0.05) CP, ADL, ME and low
(P &lt; 0.05) NDF and ADF than the cereal crop residues. There were differences
in digestible DM (DMD) at various incubation times both between and within the
feed samples. The DM and OM </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">a</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">, </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">c</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> fraction were highest (P &lt; 0.05)
for LS when compared to all the cop residues evaluated. The BS and MS had the
lowest effective degradability (ED) DM at 0.02 and 0.05 (P &lt; 0.05) rates of
passage, while the LS had </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">the highest. The
chemical composition and degradability of different crop residues</span> <span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">found in Eritrea indicate the potential the
residues have in supplementing grazing</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> animals.
%K Cereal Crop Residues
%K Chemical Composition
%K Degradability
%K Nutritive Value
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=73115