Abstract
The study aimed to nutritionally evaluate the silage of pineapple crop waste in sheep feeding in different planes of nutrition (L). We used eight growing sheep and four male castrated adults, in individual metabolic cages distributed in a switch-back design with two treatments and three periods. The treatments were the different planes of nutrition: L = MEI⁄Mm, MEI⁄1.5Mm, and MEI⁄2.5Mm, in which L = MEI/Mm, MEI is the energy amount of the feed intake and Mm is the maintenance. [...]
Highlights
The expansion of fruit farming combined with investments in agroindustries results in increased amounts of byproducts, which may increase operating costs for companies and potentially become an environmental problem depending on how the byproducts are discarded (Santos et al, 2014)
Pérola) crop waste, ground corn (DM = 856.30; crude protein (CP) = 84.93; neutral detergent fiber (NDF) = 90.0), and soybean meal (DM = 869.04; CP = 496.9; NDF = 140.0) as expressed in g/kg of dry matter (DM), except the DM expressed on fresh basis
The variance and covariance structure that best fitted the intake data of DM, CP, crude fat (CF), ASH, lignin (LIG), and OM was the heterogeneous first-order autoregressive model (AR(1))
Summary
The expansion of fruit farming combined with investments in agroindustries results in increased amounts of byproducts, which may increase operating costs for companies and potentially become an environmental problem depending on how the byproducts are discarded (Santos et al, 2014). The pineapple crop generates a large number of residues, from the plant that remains in the field to the fruit processing to obtain pulp (Antunes, 2018). The largest amount of pineapple crop waste matches the time of great availability of grazing fields with good nutritional value and relatively low cost, reducing dairy and meat producers’ interest in using this feed resource in its fresh form. There is a need to preserve this crop residue for times of feed scarcity (Alves et al, 2016). Fresh fruit byproducts, such as waste from fresh pineapple cannery, are rich in water (about 90%) and soluble carbohydrates (e.g., pectin) and decay quickly (Ososanya et al, 2014). Of the most common feed preservation techniques applicable to pineapple crop waste, controlled fermentation (through ensiling techniques) is popular
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