 | Abstract 620HOJAS DE "PORO" (Erythrina poeppigiana) COMO SUPLEMENTO PROTEICO PARA CABRAS LACTANTES [Leaves of Poro (Erythrina poeppigiana0 as protein supplement for lactating goats]Marco A Esnaola* y Candelario Rios. Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica *Dirección actual: Escuela Agricola Panamericana, PO Box 93, Tegicalupa, Honduras Livestock Research for Rural Development 1990 2(1): 24-33. Lactating goats (n=24) were used to measure milk yield responses when a basal diet of King grass and banana fruit was supplemented with fresh foliage of Erythrina poeppigiana. Milk yield increased linearly from 326 g/d without Erythrina to 820 g/d when the tree foliage was given at the rate of 1.5% (DM basis) of bodyweight. Comparable data for total DM intake were from 2.96 to 4.3% of bodyweight. This abstract relates to the following species: |