Losses and nutritional value of elephant grass silage with inclusion levels of cottonseed meal

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dc.creatorPablo Teixeira Viana
dc.creatorFábio Andrade Teixeira
dc.creatorAureliano José Vieira Pires
dc.creatorGleidson Giordano Pinto de Carvalho
dc.creatorMauro Pereira de Figueiredo
dc.creatorHermógenes Almeida de Santana Júnior
dc.date2013
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:59:46Z
dc.descriptionThe experiment was conducted to evaluate losses and nutritive value of elephant grass silagecontaining increasing levels of cottonseed meal. The experimental design was completely randomized, with five treatments: 0, 7, 14, 21 and 28% inclusion of cottonseed meal, and four replications. The material was chopped and packed in PVC silos and stored for 80 days. The pH and dry matter (DM), crude protein, lignin and ether extract of the silages increased linearly with the addition of cottonseed meal, while the levels of acid detergent insoluble nitrogen, neutral detergent fiber, acid detergent fiber, cellulose and hemicellulose decreased linearly. The addition of 28% cottonseed meal reduced the in situdisappearance of DM (48h) to values lower than those of silage without additives. The concentration of ammonia nitrogen and the losses from gases and effluent were reduced. The inclusion of 28% cottonseed meal in elephant grass silage containing 18.4% DM improved the fermentation characteristics of silage more efficiently by reducing the moisture content and effluent losses,starting at the 7% level of inclusion.
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dc.identifier1806-2636
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=303128120005
dc.identifier10.4025/actascianimsci.v35i2.13736
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/449989
dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidade Estadual de Maringá
dc.relationhttp://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3031
dc.rightsActa Scientiarum. Animal Sciences
dc.sourceActa Scientiarum. Animal Sciences (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.35
dc.subjectAgrociencias
dc.titleLosses and nutritional value of elephant grass silage with inclusion levels of cottonseed meal
dc.typeartículo científico

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