scholarly journals Effect of feeding Asystasia gangetica weed on intake, nutrient utilization, and gain in Kacang goat

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-141
Author(s):  
Asep I.M. Ali ◽  
Sofia Sandi ◽  
Riswandi ◽  
Muhamad N. Rofiq ◽  
Suhubdy
Author(s):  
Md Shahjaiai ◽  
K J Khan ◽  
M A Akbar ◽  
A M M Tareque ◽  
H Galbraith

Sesbania, a tropical legume browse, provides green foliage high in crude protein and low in crude fibre (Sen, Ray and Ranjhan, 1978). In Bangladesh two varieties of sesbania, Sesbania aculeata and a recently introduced African Sesbania rostrata are largely cultivated for green manuring in agricultural fields during kharif season. The leaves of sesbania may be used as good source of protein to supplement protein-poor roughages in ruminants diets. However, there is an extreme paucity of information on its nutritional value for goats. An attempt was therefore made to study the effect of feeding sesbania leaves as sole feed on growth performance and nutrient utilization in growing Black Bengal goats.Nine Black Bengal male castrated goats aged about 5 months and weighing 9.0 kg on average initially were used in a 56 day study.The goats were housed individually in a slatted floor and were introduced to the experimental feed over a period of 2 weeks.The animals were allocated at random to one of three dietary treatments in a randomised block design according to live weight.The control group A given road-side grass and the groups B and C offered green leaves of Sesbania aculeata and Sesbania rostrata, respectively.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1043-1046 ◽  
Author(s):  
Razia Sultana Janampet ◽  
Kishan Kumar Malavath ◽  
Rajanna Neeradi ◽  
Satyanarayana Chedurupalli ◽  
Raghunandan Thirunahari

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