THE FEEDING VALUE OF CURED PARKIA FILICOIDEA WELW. LEAVES WITH CASSAVA PEELS TO THE GOAT

Adeloye, A.A. and Awosanya, B. and Joseph, K. and Olawoye, S, (1993) THE FEEDING VALUE OF CURED PARKIA FILICOIDEA WELW. LEAVES WITH CASSAVA PEELS TO THE GOAT. Bioresource Technology, 45. pp. 85-87.

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Abstract

The influence of supplementary inclusion of Parkia filicoidea Welw. hay in a cassva-peel diet for goats was evaluated by a digestibifity study. Eighteen Sokoto red goats, 6"0-7"5 kg, were involved, There were six diets comprising unsupplemented cassava peels; 25, 50 and 75% replacements with Parkia hay; whole Parkia hay; and the control. The control diet was of 60% Andropogon gayanus and 40% yellow maize and soybean meal mixed in a 1"5.: 1 ratio. Dry matter (DM) intake (g/head per day) was better (P< O'05) with whole Parkia hay (153+34"5) than with the cassava peels (137+ 12.9). Nevertheless, DM intakes were far better (> 200 g/head per day) on the supplemented diets. Acceptabilities were enhanced at (cassava peel/Parkia hay) 25/75 and 50/50 mixtures. DM digestibilities were higher on unsupplemented cassava peels, 25 and 50% replacements than with Parkia hay. Nutrient digestibilities were higher (P < (~05) with the 50% replacement diet, except for crude fibre and total ash. The availabifity of the cassava peel and Parkia hay at little or no cost and the digestibility of the 50/50 combination as against that of the conventional (control) diet would make the 50/50 combination of the plant products an acceptable dry-season feed and a suitably cheap feed in subsistence goat-production.

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