FORAGE CROPS for SMALL RUMINANTS Flashcards
is composed of plant leaves and stems mostly eaten by grazing animals. It can be herbaceous legumes, grasses, shrubs or tree legumes.
Forage
Types of Forage?
- Grasses
- Legumes
Serves as main feed for ruminants
Grasses
Produces more biomass than
legumes
Grasses
Provides better quality feeds
Legumes
Provides protein, vitamins and
minerals for more improved
performance of animals
Legumes
Leguminous crop are cheap
source of feeds
Legumes
It has lesser chance of ingesting
infective larvae as compared to
grazing lower growing vegetation
Legumes
MPTS
Multi – Purpose Tree Species
Selection of Forage Species to Plant:
Adaptability to the environment
Nutritive Value
Availability of planting materials
White ball acacia (Sci-name)
Acaciella Angustissima
Drought tolerant
Used as livestock feed
High in protein
White ball acacia
Mulbery (Sci-name)
Morus sp.
Leaves and stalks are fed to
ruminants
It has 70.8% for digestible CP, 48.4% for total digestible nutrients and 35.6 % for starch equivalent on a dry basis
The digestibility of mulberry leaf: in vivo (goats) 78.4-80.8% and in vitro are very high (89.2%)
Mulbery
Hairy indigo (sci-name)
Indigofera hirsuta L.
Warm season legume and is used as a green manure and cover crop
Contains 23.8 percent crude protein, 2.0 percent ether extract, 15.2 percent crude fibre, 46.8 percent nitrogen-free extract, 1.88 percent calcium and 0.37 percent phosphorus
Hairy indigo
Kakawate (sci-name)
Gliricidia sepium
Used as cut and carry forage for
cattle, sheep, and goats
High in protein
Kakawate
Madre de Agua (sci-name)
Trichanthera gigantea
Flamengia; malabalatong (sci-name)
Flemingia macrophylla
Contains 22.7 % crude protein (CP) and 8%tannin
Low digestibility because of
high tannin and fibre content.
Low palatability to cattle, particularly in the wet season.
Flamegia; malabalatong
Pigeon Pea (sci-name)
Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.
Used as a protein source or
supplement, due to its high
concentration in CP in both seeds
and leaves
The leaves are high in fiber,
particularly ADF and lignin
Pigeon Pea
Ipil-ipil (sci-name)
Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de wit
Provides an excellent source of
high-protein cattle fodder
Contains mimosine, a toxic amino acid which is metabolized to goitrogenic DHP
Ipil-ipil
Desmanthus (sci-name)
Desmanthus virgatus
It makes a good food plant for
cattle, it is not as promising a
feed for pigs
It is very tolerant of grazing
Desmanthus
Agati (sci-name)
Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Pers.
Katuray (sci-name)
Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr.
A source of cut and carry forage
Used as a grazed forage
Leaves are a good source of protein for cattle and sheep
Katuray
Calopo (sci-name)
Calopogoniummucunoides Desv.
Used as cover crop
It provides soil protection against erosion, reduces soil temperature, improves soil fertility and controls weeds
can be grazed or cut and fed fresh
Has a low nutritive value
Calopo
Peanut (sci-name)
Arachis hypogaea L.
Manimanian, perennial
peanut, rhizoma peanut (sci-name)
Arachis glabrata
Star grass (sci-name)
Cynodon plectostachyus (K.
Schum.) Pilger
Alabang X (sci-name)
Dichanthium
aristatum
Guinea grass (sci-name)
Megathyrsus maximus
Napier grass, Elephant grass (sci-name)
Pennisetum purpureum
Stylo (sci-name)
Stylosanthes guianensis
