Nutritive value of corn silage in mixture with vine peas
Y. Zhu A , C. S. Bai B , X. S. Guo C F , Y. L. Xue D and Kazuo Ataku E
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A Institute of Grassland Science, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, People’s Republic of China.
B College of Gardening, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110161, People’s Republic of China.
C MOE Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Ecology, School of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, People’s Republic of China.
D Institute of Grassland Sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural and Animal Sciences College, Hohhot 010030, People’s Republic of China.
E Department of Dairy Science, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu 069-8501, Japan.
F Corresponding author. Email: guoxsh07@lzu.edu.cn
Animal Production Science 51(12) 1117-1122 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN11125
Submitted: 2 May 2011 Accepted: 14 October 2011 Published: 18 November 2011
Abstract
Combining corn with legumes for silage is a feasible strategy to improve crude protein concentration in corn silage. This study was conducted to determine the fermentation characteristics and overall nutritive value of ensiled corn (Zea mays L.), vine peas (Pisum sativum L.), and mixtures of the two crops at three different ratios. The two crops were ensiled in corn/pea mixtures containing 0, 33, 50, 67, and 100% corn in vacuumed plastic bags for 60 days at room temperature. The addition of peas to corn crude protein and dry matter concentrations in the ensiled forages had a negligible influence on neutral detergent fibre concentration compared with corn silage. Corn silage had a greater (P < 0.05) lactic acid concentration than vine peas silage and the mixtures. There were no differences (P > 0.05) in in vitro dry matter and neutral detergent fibre digestibility among the silages made from the vine peas, corn, and mixtures. Improved fermentation characteristics were obtained in vine peas and corn mixture silage at a ratio of 33 : 67 compared with the other mixtures and vine peas silage. Results generated from this study suggest that combining vine peas with corn for silage could provide livestock with not only a high energy concentration feed, but a high concentration of crude protein as well.
Additional keywords: fermentation quality, in vitro digestibility.
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