Using of silage and haylage of forage legumes in ruminant nutrition and
promotion of promoting proper forage conservation techniques should be an
important strategy in livestock production in our country. Forage legumes
are difficult to ensile, so it is necessary to apply the starter culture of
selected strains of lactic acid bacteria that support the ensiling process
and prevent bacterial butyric fermentation and thus contribute to the
preservation and improvement of silage and haylage quality. In this paper,
the influence of bacterial inoculant ?Silko for alfalfa? on the quality of
silage and haylage of alfalfa in two separate trials is presented. The
inoculant is a combination of homofermentative lactic bacteria Lactobacillus
plantarum and Pediococcus spp. The first-cut alfalfa in the second year was
used for silage and haylage. The silage was examined in mini-silos in the
laboratory, and the haylage at the cattle farm where the plant material was
cuts were collected in experimental silo bags. The treatments were control
(untreated silage, i.e. haylage) and silage, i.e. haylage treated with
inoculant ?Silko for alfalfa? (rate of 5 ml t-1 fresh material). The silages
were analyzed after 90 days, and haylage after 40. The inoculant ?Silko for
alfalfa? has been found to maintain the nutritive value of silage and
haylage and to improve their chemical, energy and fermentation parameters
relative to the control. Since ?Silko for alfalfa? positively affects the
correct lactic acid fermentation of silage and haylage and contributes to a
lesser loss of nutritional value and energy it is expected that it can
promote a high level of productivity of ruminants, and thus contribute to
the growth of profit in livestock production.
The nutritive quality of cholla cactus as affected by burning.
