2006
DOI: 10.1007/s11250-006-4242-6
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Nutritive value of tropical pastures in Mauritius

Abstract: The basic diet of ruminants in Mauritius comprises mainly tropical forages, whose productivity is highly dependent on the season. Dry matter concentrations and nutritive value of the three most important grasses (Bothriochloa pertusa, Cynodon plectostachyus and Ischaemum aristatum) on Mauritius were measured on three occasions during the year. They showed an increase in dry matter concentration and a decrease in nutritional value at the end of the dry season, more marked for farms located in the coastal region… Show more

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“…The OMD data of S. sphacelata and T. laxum were quite similar to values reported by Grimaud et al (2006). Differences in DMI and OMD between studies may be mainly related to variations in forage chemical composition and to animal factors.…”
Section: Foragessupporting
confidence: 84%
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“…The OMD data of S. sphacelata and T. laxum were quite similar to values reported by Grimaud et al (2006). Differences in DMI and OMD between studies may be mainly related to variations in forage chemical composition and to animal factors.…”
Section: Foragessupporting
confidence: 84%
“…The ED u values uncorrected for particle losses were within the range of values found by Grimaud et al (2006) for tropical grasses. These values, based on simple wash losses, are overestimated, since only the real soluble components of feeds are very fast fermented.…”
Section: Dry Matter Yields and Chemical Compositionsupporting
confidence: 79%
“…The positive effects of the pre-mating treatments in this study can be attributed to the removal of worms from the treated animals enabling them to utilise available feeds more efficiently and perform better even in adverse conditions. During the dry season, most native tropical grasses have a low nutritional value and may not meet the requirements of animals (Grimaud et al 2006). The gestation periods in grazing livestock, under conditions such as those in the study area, are also designed to coincide with that of inadequate pastures and are geared to completion at the time when fleshly growing pastures become available for the progeny (Armour 1980).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Kikuyu DM contents greater than 30% lead to roughage utilisation at too old stages so as to guarantee an optimal nutritive value of forage, despite this grass present a compromise in the evolution of nutritional values between temperate and other tropical forages, as previously described by Grimaud et al (2002), attributed to the influence of altitude. In some (Brégeat et al, 1994;Grimaud et al, 2006), although this does not interfere with palatability (Brégreat et al, 1994). Nevertheless, these high DM contents were not evidenced for C. gayana, another tropical grass but managed by regular cuttings, even if at the beginning of our survey a light increase was also observed from HS to CS.…”
Section: A Higher Dm Content Of Grazed Tropical Grassesmentioning
confidence: 99%