EVALUATION OF MULBERRY BASED SILAGE FOR ITS NUTRITIVE QUALITY
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2017-08-02
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
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The experiment was conducted during Rabi Season 2016 to evaluate the mulberry
based silage for nutritive quality. The study was conducted at College of Sericulture
Chintamani, UAS, Bengaluru. The experiment consisted of nine treatment combination
with three replications laid out in a Complete Randomised Design. The Nutritive analysis
of Mulberry based silages was carried out for physical, chemical parameters, cell wall
fractions and palatability test for ruminants. Where physical parameter like pH was
ranged from 4.3 to 5.3, colour ranged from dark green to light green with sweetish odour,
in all different treatments combinations. Palatability test was done for ruminants, where
acceptance was found to be more in 75 per cent mulberry leaves and shoots with 25 per
cent maize. Chemical parameters like crude protein, crude fibre, ether extract and total
ash, ADF (Acid Detergent Fibre) and NDF (Neutral detergent fibre). Crude protein was
found to be 16.8 per cent in sole mulberry, crude fibre(1.17%) and ether extract (6.53%)
was effective in 50 per cent mulberry leaves with shoots with 50 per cent napier grass
combination. Total ash content (12.45 %) was found to be highest in 50 per cent
mulberry leaves and shoots with 50 per cent maize. Cell was fraction like NDF (67%) in
sole napier grass silage ADF (55%) in sole mulberry silage.
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