 | Abstract 515Supplementation of cattle with green banana. 1. Effect on the digestion parameters of the fibre in sugarcane tops.San-Martin,-F; Pezo,-D; Ruiz,-ME; Vohnout,-K; Pun,-HHL Centro Agromomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica. Tropical-Animal-Production. 1983, 8: 3, 215-222; 17 ref. The 6 cattle with a rumen cannula were given sugar cane tops freely with a supplement to bring the total intake of crude protein to 325 g/100 kg bodyweight daily, with meat-and-bone meal and urea providing crude protein in the proportion 2:3. The protein supplement was given with the minimum of molasses as a vehicle. Different cattle got waste green banana none or 0.388 to 1.889 kg DM/100 kg bodyweight daily, i.e., none or 21.6 to 70.7% of total intake of DM. Sugar cane top ground to 3 mm was left in the rumen in dacron bags for 6 to 120 h. Green banana more than 21.6% of total DM increased the period of slow digestion and decreased the potential degradation and digestibility rate of the sugar cane fibre in the rumen. This abstract relates to the following species: |