Chemical-bromatological composition and in vitro ruminal kinetics of sugar cane silage with maniçoba

The objective this study was to evaluate the effect of manicoba supplementation in sugar cane silage with respect to chemical-bromatological composition and the in vitro degradation kinetics of the silage. This experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with four treatments (manicoba levels: 0, 20, 30, and 40%) and six repetitions. Silage samples were analyzed for their chemical-bromatological composition, digestible energy, metabolizable energy, total digestible nutrients, in vitro gas production and degradability parameters. The silage with higher inclusion level had better bromatological composition (p < 0.05) than the silage without manicoba for CP, NDF, ADF and MM (6.49, 56.64, 38.66 and 4.52% versus 2.21, 70.96, 49.95 and 2.78%). Higher ME content (2.35 MJ kg -1 MS versus 1.85 MJ kg -1 MS), DE (2.87 Mcal kg -1 MS versus 2.25 Mcal kg -1 MS) and TDN (65.16% versus 51.11%), respectively. The highest values for gas production were also observed in silage with added manicoba due to higher NFC content (34.87%). With an increase in the proportion of manicoba, there was an increase in the soluble a fraction, b fraction, and thus a higher effective degradability of dry matter (46.56%). The addition of manicoba improves the nutritive value of sugarcane silage.