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Sesbania Leaves as Sole Feed for Growing Black Bengal Boats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2017

Md Shahjaiai ,
K J Khan ,
M A Akbar ,
A M M Tareque  and
H Galbraith
Md Shahjaiai
Affiliation:
Dept.of Animal Nutrition, Bangladesh Agricultural University Myaensingh 2202, Bangladesh
K J Khan
Affiliation:
Dept.of Animal Nutrition, Bangladesh Agricultural University Myaensingh 2202, Bangladesh
M A Akbar
Affiliation:
Dept.of Animal Nutrition, Bangladesh Agricultural University Myaensingh 2202, Bangladesh
A M M Tareque
Affiliation:
Dept.of Animal Nutrition, Bangladesh Agricultural University Myaensingh 2202, Bangladesh
H Galbraith
Affiliation:
Dept. of Agriculture, university of Aberdeen, 581 King street Aberdeen AB9 1UD, UK
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Sesbania, a tropical legume browse, provides green foliage high in crude protein and low in crude fibre (Sen, Ray and Ranjhan, 1978). In Bangladesh two varieties of sesbania, Sesbania aculeata and a recently introduced African Sesbania rostrata are largely cultivated for green manuring in agricultural fields during kharif season. The leaves of sesbania may be used as good source of protein to supplement protein-poor roughages in ruminants diets. However, there is an extreme paucity of information on its nutritional value for goats. An attempt was therefore made to study the effect of feeding sesbania leaves as sole feed on growth performance and nutrient utilization in growing Black Bengal goats.

Nine Black Bengal male castrated goats aged about 5 months and weighing 9.0 kg on average initially were used in a 56 day study.The goats were housed individually in a slatted floor and were introduced to the experimental feed over a period of 2 weeks.The animals were allocated at random to one of three dietary treatments in a randomised block design according to live weight.The control group A given road-side grass and the groups B and C offered green leaves of Sesbania aculeata and Sesbania rostrata, respectively.

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Tropical Feeds
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1994 , March 1994 , pp. 133
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1994

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