Digestibility and fermentative characteristics of mango, lemon and corn stover silages with or without addition of molasses and urea

Aguilera, A.; Pérez-Gil, F.; Grande, D.; Cruz, Ivette; Juarez, Jessica R.

doi:10.1016/s0921-4488(96)01001-2

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“…These observations are in agreement with the study on apple pomace by Pirmohammadi et al (2006). For EN and ELA, dry matter contents were similar to those obtained from mango and lemon silages (350 g/kg fresh sample) reported by Aguilera et al (1997). In comparison with the EN and ELA treatments, the SD treatment had a higher CP content.…”

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Evaluation of chemical composition, in situ degradability and in vitro gas production of ensiled and sun-dried mulberry pomace

Zhou¹,

Meng²,

Ren³

et al. 2012

J. Anim. Feed Sci.

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The study was conducted to evaluate the nutritive value of mulberry pomace (MP) treated with sun-drying (SD), ensiling (EN), and ensiling with a Lactobacillus additive (ELA), respectively. The chemical composition, in situ degradabilities, and in vitro gas production were determined for all treated MP samples. The results showed that there were significant differences (P<0.05) in dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP) and water-soluble carbohydrates (WSC) among SD, EN and ELA treatments. Although some fermentation parameters of two ensiled MP products were significantly different, both of them fell within the normal fermentation range. The in vitro gas production of the SD treatment was higher than of the EN and ELA treatments, while the proportion of methane produced by MP treated with EN and ELA was significantly lower (P<0.05) than that of MP treated with SD; MP treated with SD had significantly higher acetate production than the two ensiled MPs. In situ DM and protein effective degradabilities of MP treated with SD were higher than in MP treated with EN and ELA. In conclusion, mulberry pomace ensiled with or without Lactobacillus additives exhibited good fermentation traits, suggesting that ensiling is more acceptable than sundrying in practice.

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Evaluation of chemical composition, in situ degradability and in vitro gas production of ensiled and sun-dried mulberry pomace

Zhou¹,

Meng²,

Ren³

et al. 2012

J. Anim. Feed Sci.

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“…Moreover, the higher density found in the cabbage silages treated with high amounts of ground corn probably reduced the aerobic respiration from undesirable microorganisms due to the escape of the air trapped in the silo, as often reported for others crops (McDonald et al, 1991), resulting in lower gas losses. In this sense, the addition of large amounts of ground corn successfully resulted in decreased fermentative losses from cabbage silage, which is in agreement with other studies, in which the necessity of including an additive at the ensiling of fruits also was reported (Aguilera et al, 1997;Khattab et al, 2000).…”

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“…The ensiling of cabbage without additives leads to low production of lactic acid and pH reduction is not satisfactory to avoid the action of undesirable microorganisms for silage (Cao et al, 2011), which results in an inefficient fermentative process and low silage quality (Woolford, 1984). Thus, the use of absorbent material (e.g., ground corn) could increase the DM content of the silage and improve the fermentation, as suggested for mango, lemon, and banana (Aguilera et al, 1997;Khattab et al, 2000). A study reported increases of 163% in the WSC content of grass at ensiling with the addition of 7 kg ground corn per ton of grass (Van Onselen and Lopes, 1988).…”

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Wasted cabbage (Brassica oleracea) silages treated with different levels of ground corn andsilage inoculant

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“…In wilted silages, however, lactic acid production increased (P <0.05) gradually up to day 120 for the early vegetative and full bloom stages (Table 3). This increase in lactic acid concentration with fermentation time is in accordance with other studies (Aguilera et al, 1997). For prior wilted treatments, however, the lactic acid concentration declined significantly for the boot stage at days 21 and 120 post ensiling.…”

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Influence of growth stage at harvest on fermentative characteristics of Panicum maximum silage

Niekerk¹,

Hassen²,

Bechaz³

2011

SA J. An. Sci.

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An experiment was conducted to investigate the influence of stage of growth at harvest on fermentative characteristics of Panicum maximum silage. The treatments were three different growth stages (early vegetative, boot and full bloom stage) that were ensiled directly or wilted prior to ensiling. Directly ensiled and wilted forage material were mixed prior to ensiling with molasses at 12 and 8 kg/ton dry matter, respectively. Thereafter, each treatment was ensiled in 12 one litre glass jars (bottles). From each treatment, samples of the silage were taken from three bottles at 0, 7, 21 and 120 d post-ensiling for analysis of fermentative characteristics. Growth stage in directly cut silage had no effect on silage pH between days 0 and 21. In contrast, within the wilted groups, a lower pH was observed at day 7 when the plants were harvested at the boot stage than at an early vegetative or full bloom stage. In both directly cut as well as prior wilted silage, a higher lactic acid concentration was recorded on day 7 in the boot stage silage compared to the full bloom stage silage, but on day 21 the boot stage had a lower lactic acid concentration than that of the full bloom stage silage. Growth stage had no effect on the acetic acid concentration on day 7. However, on days 21 and 120 the full bloom stage had a higher acetic acid concentration when the material was directly ensiled. In contrast, in prior wilted silage a higher acetic acid concentration was found in the early vegetative stage silage than in the full bloom stage silage at 120 days post-ensiling. Total nitrogen was lower in the full bloom stage silage than in the early vegetative and boot stage silages. A higher level of ammonia nitrogen was recorded at days 7 and 21 for the early vegetative stage silage as compared to the boot stage silage. A similar trend was revealed in the prior wilted groups between days 0 and 21. Harvesting at the boot growth stage consistently resulted in a good fermentation process with desirable fermentation end products (low pH and higher lactic acid concentration) up to a period of 21 days, but when compared at 120 days post-ensiling the differences between boot and bloom stages were not clearly observed in terms of fermentative attributes, probably due to the confounding effect of undesirable fermentation by entrobacteria or yeast.

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Digestibility and fermentative characteristics of mango, lemon and corn stover silages with or without addition of molasses and urea

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Evaluation of chemical composition, <i>in situ</i> degradability and <i>in vitro</i> gas production of ensiled and sun-dried mulberry pomace

Evaluation of chemical composition, <i>in situ</i> degradability and <i>in vitro</i> gas production of ensiled and sun-dried mulberry pomace

Wasted cabbage (Brassica oleracea) silages treated with different levels of ground corn andsilage inoculant

Influence of growth stage at harvest on fermentative characteristics of <i>Panicum maximum</i> silage

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