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Glyricidia Sheep Brachiaria 0 -7
sepium milliformis Chadhokar and
Khantharaju
25 5 (1980 )
47 9
Glyricidia Goats Poor Hay 0 21.8 45.0
sepium Smith and Van
Houtert( 1986 )
22 25.9 45.0
36 29.5 51.0

46 30.0 55.0
Sesbania sesban Goats Barley straw 0* 17.7 48.3 41 Norton et al.,
( 1992 )
33 28.7 60.9 47

66 31.7 64.1 63.0
100 27.8 63.9 9
*Supplemented with 70g molasses + 30g urea.

L.leucocephala leaves and G. sepium leaves in Silage for Sheep (Tjandraatmadja,1989 )

Intake Wt. N-Balance
Grass Forage Tree Molasses DMD%
g/kgW 0.75 change ( % of Intake)
Pongala Hay - _ 23.9 64.7 + 16.6
Pongala Grass - + 16.1 60.6 - 6.8
L.leucocephala - 22.9 54.9 + 28.8
L.leucocephala + 22.7 56.4 + 33.6

G.sepium - 23.1 53.3 + 36.4
G.sepium + 25.4 55.8 + 40.3
Setaria Hay - - 16.7 40.6 - <0

Setaria Grass - + 19.0 56.5 - 6.7
L.leucocephala - 22.1 53.6 0 31.0
L.leucocephala + 21.1 57.4 + 35.5
G.sepium - 17.1 54.4 - 33.3

G.sepium + 21.8 60.4 + 36.2
Sorghum silage - - 15.9 57.1 - <0

38 Institute of Animal Nutrition, Centre for Animal Production Studies, TANUVAS
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development