 | Abstract 259The effect of age of regrowth on nutritive quality of Brachiaria decumbens.Trujillo,-GM; Posada,-JG; Sierra,-O Secretaria de Agricultura de Antioquia, Antioquia, Colombia. PasturasTropicales-Boletin. 1986, 8: 2, 7-9. Six African sheep (32.5 kg) were kept in metabolic crates and fed B. decumbens grown on an Oxisol at 1045 m alt. and cut after 30, 45, 60 or 75 days of regrowth. Av. DM digestibility, CP digestibility and daily DM intake were 56%, 60.1% and 76.3 g/kgW0.75, 52.9%, 58.3% and 70.4 g/kgW0.75, 47.6%, 53.7% and 67.4 g/kgW0.75 and 45.5%, 48.1% and 54.1 g/kgW0.75 for the regrowth periods, resp. The correlation between DM intake and in vivo DM digestibility was r = 0.90. This abstract relates to the following species: |